Quotes About Argument

That's not a good enough answer." "I know that better than anyone. But it is the answer regardless of whether or not you think it's good enough. That's what makes reality reality, the fact that it just keeps being true no matter how much you argue with it.

She is arguing the

Kein Argument bringt mich so aus der Fessung, als wenn einer mit einem unbedeutenden Gemeinspruche angezogen kommt, wenn ich aus ganzem Herzen rede.

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly.

Avoid arguments. They are a distraction from survival. If you lose, you feel more a loser than usual. If you win, you have made an enemy. --John Berger

Freud only rarely draws on the data of direct observation, one or two of the occasions when he does so are key ones. Instances are the cotton-reel incident on which he bases much of his argument in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (S.E., 18, pp. 14–16), and the agonising reappraisal of the theory of anxiety that he undertakes in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926).

When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.

Reasoning by analogy is like filling balloons with liquid helium. It won't fly.

They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards.

How childish is   the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were   chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be   worthy." We

the soundness of an argument depends on its content and logical structure rather than on who offers it.

Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and gravitation that he had discovered.

A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

I rest their case. I'm Pro-Life.

Suppose you try to convince someone, even if only yourself, that change is an illusion. You work your way through each step until you or your listener is convinced. Yet that your mind entertains one premise after the other and finally reaches the conclusion is itself an instance o f the change the argument denies.

I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

State the argument, not impose Authentic argumentation fragrances as flowers It requires not whatever approval

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.