Quotes About Argument

If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.

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

See where that argument with the religion teacher led, every choice has its history, so many moments of our existence are shoved into a corner, waiting for an outlet, and in the end the outlet arrives. But I would have been exaggerating, in reality it was much simpler.

The screenplay, obliged to work in its own right, is both an argument with the source material and a commentary on it.

Typically we learn to "argue" by assertion. That is, we tend to start with our conclusions—our desires or opinions—without a whole lot to back them up. And it works, sometimes, at least when we're very young. What could be better? Real argument, by contrast, takes time and practice. Marshaling our reasons, proportioning our conclusions to the actual evidence, considering objections, and all the rest—these are acquired skills. We have to grow up a little.

No matter how well you argue from premises to conclusion, your conclusion will be weak if your premises are weak.

Second, the purpose must be defined precisely, and not in a fashion that smuggles in the answer to the question before the decision-maker.

A woman can never prove her argument right with a wiseman's proverb so she has to take the support of a wicked person's thought only to bolster her belligerent point.

Better to withdraw own words or oneself from the discussion that leads to no solution than to drag oneself into an argument with the stupid people.

He who wins an argument with the woman through his logical statement loses her.

Only fools in public get excited or incited by watching the topics being hotly debated & discussed by panels on the news channels.

Take my story as a cautionary tale, a narrative argument against ready-made solutions. It tells you that applying formulas is not good enough - not, that is, when you're faced with really hard problems!

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

To make the worse appear the better reason.

Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.

Nor does the argument about the contrary seem to be well urged. It does not follow, they say, because pain is an evil, that pleasure is a good; for the opposite to evil may be not a good, but some other evil, and both evil and good may stand opposed to something which is neither one nor the other.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. In either case it is persuasive because there is somebody whom it persuades.

All proofs rest on premises.

Here is the burden of my argument with life. I have forgotten homesickness.

Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.