Quotes About Argument

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

No science ever defends its first principles.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and its flaw.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.

One cannot exchange ideas with a rational person any more than one can argue with a religious fanatic.

the essence of criticism is conversation - a passionate, rational argument about a shared experience

As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fanhood or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism. Meanwhile, as citizens of the political commonwealth, we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence in which bluster too often substitutes for argument. There

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same.

Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.

demonstrates quite clearly Swift's maxim that you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

A tradition is a living argument. A living argument for a practice that began a long time ago.

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

No arguments will give courage to the coward.