Quotes About Argument

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

Her mother knew her innermost thoughts. It almost made her want to cry with relief. But she didn't understand what that had to do with their argument.

We've had a banshee in residence," Jim argued with a wave at Talia. "So we have," Adam answered. A banshee. A weapon. It was about fucking time.

Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.

Adam thinks that you two are in an argument." My body zinged into alert mode. My mind didn't know what Mrs. Vader meant, but my body already did. Even Sean glanced over at her with a cautious look. "He does?" I asked faintly. "A bad one," she confirmed. "How could we be in a bad argument without me even knowing about it?

She loved to read and did so quite uncritically, taking each book as a prescription of sorts, an argument for a certain kind of life.

She liked to argue, especially with people who were serious about weird ideas they swore were true.

And the flames are every colour of the rainbow. They can't be, observed Daffy. Well, they are, she said cheekily. Have you been there, that you know so much about it? No, said Daffy, very calm, but I'd wager I know more than you about the chemical processes of combustion. Mary rolled her eyes. Did he hope to dazzle her with syllables?

Argy-bargying in double-Dutch like that. Do you want

Arguing with real people was marginally better than getting upset with sheets of paper.

But shall he argue, indeed, and then not take pains to avoid conducting himself recklessly and at haphazard in an argument? And if he does not, how will he any longer be the sort of man we think he is? (...) Let them show that he will be able, and all these speculations become mere superfluity, they were absurd and inconsistent with our preconception of the good man.

If someone, says Epictetus, refuses to accept what is patently obvious, it is not easy to find arguments to use against him that could cause him to change his mind.

If a man, said Epictetus, opposes evident truths, it is not easy to find arguments by which we shall make him change his opinion. But this does not arise either from the man's strength or the teacher's weakness; for when the man, though he has been confuted, is hardened like a stone, how shall we then be able to deal with him by argument?

Will the wise man refuse to engage with such a person, and avoid all dialogue and examination? [26] But of all people he is supposed to be most adept in argument, expert in question and answer, and proof against sophisms and deceit. [27] Or will he engage with him but without caring whether he argues in a confused or careless manner? In that case how then will he be the sort of man we imagine him to be?

only a fool would argue with a fool!

The feeling is the less to be combated, because it is utterly unreasonable and utterly regardless of facts or arguments.

defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Bengali poem by Ram Mohun Roy which bears on the subject matter of this essay.* Roy explains what is really dreadful about death: Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

We argue, but we never change each other's minds. We only get farther apart.

You can be an accuser or an advocate.

Mr. Friedman will convince you about anything he want, even if that's ridiculous. he was a really smart economist

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.