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Quotes About Argument

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The more reasons we put on the table, the easier it is for people to discard the shakiest one. Once they reject one of our justifications, they can easily dismiss our entire case. That happened regularly to the average negotiators: they brought too many different weapons to battle. They lost ground not because of the strength of their most compelling point, but because of the weakness of their least compelling one.
~ Adam Grant
Doubt is the cornerstone of science. It gives you a sure footing from which to build an argument based on data.
~ Adam Rutherford
Maimonides, one of the few people in the Middle Ages to deny the validity of astrology, quoted the phrase "Israel has no star of fortune" in support of his argument, while others produced opposing opinions to back their views.
~ Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson (II)
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
~ Francis Spufford
You can only have one aim per debate.
~ Christopher Hitchens
What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.
~ Dick Dale
The perception of how a couple should argue, whose voice should be raised and who should be a dominant player has been altered in 'Dobara Phir Se.'
~ Sanam Saeed
To deprive the bourgeoisie not of its art but of its concept of art, this is the precondition of a revolutionary argument.
~ Pierre Macherey
History is an argument without end.
~ Pieter Geyl
Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.
~ Pitigrilli
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
~ Plato
I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
~ Plato
Fools :-- Corona cases are rising in India When they were asked how they know this Fools :-- We have seen it in news and also it is trending on twitter and other social media When they were further asked how they can say that media is not lying and misguiding public to create fear Fools :-- Don't argue with us and let us concentrate on news
~ Prafull Sakulani
The first victim when a dispute occurs is the truth.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
There are two sides to every question.
~ Protagoras
In quarreling the truth is always lost.
~ Publilius Syrus
She had to admit this journalist was one of her trickier customers, and his interviews nearly always ended with the same argument, since he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question and when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it.
~ Rachel Cusk
And it was the same with my first wife and me,' he said. 'We hit a bump in the road, and over we went.' It had, he now realised, been a happy relationship, the most harmonious of his life. He and his wife had met and got engaged as teenagers; they had never argued, until the argument in which everything between them was broken.
~ Rachel Cusk
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
~ Jonathan Kozol
It's a lovely thing to see intelligent argument, unbending principle and policy go up against demagoguery, nativism and vulgar name-calling.
~ Neil Macdonald