Quotes About Argument

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Nothing can account for the reductionist tendencies among neuroscientists except a lack of rigor and consistency, a loyalty to conclusions that are prior to evidence and argument, and an indifference to science as a whole.

In the matter of belief, I have always found that defenses have the same irrelevance about them as the criticisms they are meant to answer. I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. We participate in Being without remainder. No breath, no thought, no wart or whisker, is not as sunk in Being as it could be. And yet no one can say what Being is.

The teleological argument, or argument from design, attempts to furnish evidence for God's existence from the apparent design of the world.

Nunca se aborreça — Don Corleone o havia instruído. — Nunca faça uma ameaça. Argumente com as pessoas.

you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason.

It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name.

Hoheit, do you know why crows are black? No, I never thought of it. They taste lousy, and they're black as a sure sign to predators that they're crows, who will taste lousy. Why aren't they yellow? They live in cold climates, and black absorbs heat. They don't need camouflage, so they can take advantage of the way their color soaks up the sunlight. Why do you ask me these questions? Klodwig demanded. To remind you, Hoheit, not to argue with nature.

nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

History teaches over and over again that a conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose

In former times great objects were attained by great work. When evils were to be reformed, reformers set about their heavy task with grave decorum and laborious argument. An age was occupied in proving a grievance, and philosophical researches were printed in folio pages, which it took a life to write, and an eternity to read. We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows