Quotes About Argument

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

There is no conversation that can build a translation bridge connecting this epistemic divide; conspiracism fractures the common political world. Where the new conspiracism extinguishes common sense, there can be no argument or negotiation or compromise—all of which require some shared terrain of facts and a shared horizon of what it means to know something.

The best friends are those you can argue with but love anyway.

An effective supplementary sales argument, which he used repeatedly, was: 'You can always make more money, but if you miss this picture, you'll never get another like it, for it is unique.' It was the sort of home truth Duveen's clients understood.

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

the argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.

In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your funeral / though the real question is whether or not I will make you immortal.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

You certainly wouldn't want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.

Sullen silence was taken for rapt attention, and gave him greater room to talk; sharp answers were received as smart sallies of girlish vivacity, that only required an indulgent rebuke; and flat contradictions were but as oil to the flames, calling forth new strains of argument to support his dogmas, and bringing down upon me endless floods of reasoning to overwhelm me with conviction.

The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when the argue in full swing, they reveal their true character.

Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a "real" quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion.

And I like their humor," Septimus went on. "They know how to laugh at themselves and each other—they like to laugh, they don't see any sin in it, or any danger to their dignity. They like to argue. They don't feel it a mortal wound if anyone queries what they say, indeed they expect to be questioned.

You can't think later what the argument was about, even, but you know that things will be changed forever after.

The eternal argument over so-called entitlement programs—and, more broadly, over liberal and conservative thought—will never be resolved because each side represents an ancient and absolutely essential component of our evolutionary past.