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Quotes About Argument

no era aquel un momento para dimes y diretes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
After all, we're blessed with doctors. I brought him two doctors. So they argued with each other. One said operate, the other said don't. Meanwhile, the patient died.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Lawyers and doctors were created for the specific purpose of contradicting each other. Whatever one says, the other must say just the opposite. They're just like the Aramaic translation of the Bible.
~ Sholem Aleichem
But go argue with an ignoramus. I'm referring to my own brother, Henikh, may God not punish me for these words.
~ Sholem Aleichem
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
~ Sigmund Freud
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]
~ Sigmund Freud
The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours.
~ Sigmund Freud
But it is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Society
~ Sigmund Freud
Reflection enables us to step back, to see our perspective on a situation as perhaps distorted or blind, at the very least to see if there is argument for preferring our ways, or whether it is just subjective.
~ Simon Blackburn
You see, we don't like murder as a way of argument—that's what really marks the Liberal!
~ Sinclair Lewis
The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The simple act of distancing yourself from negativity breaks the connection, clears the air, gets you grounded, and helps you drop your defenses. It opens your heart and leads you to a higher perspective. This is especially true when you find yourself in a heated argument. Leaving is best done with grace, sensitivity, and discretion. If you can quietly leave a toxic situation, get out as fast as you can.
~ Sonia Choquette
Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
~ Sophie Kinsella
You can't switch sides! I glare at him in fury. I was never on your side, retorts Lorcan. Your side is the nutty side.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Truth is always the strongest argument.
~ Sophocles
I've never known an honest man who can plead so well for any plea whatever.
~ Sophocles
Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.
~ Joan Didion
Dalila: In argument with men a woman everGoes by the worse, whatever be her cause.Samson: For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!
~ John Milton
Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
~ John Milton
What in me is darkIllumine, what is low raise and support;That to the height of this great argumentI may assert eternal Providence,And justify the ways of God to men.
~ John Milton
But all was false and hollow; through his tongueDropp'd manna, and could make the worse appearThe better reason.
~ John Milton
I don't know why I bother arguing with anybody sometimes, it never changes a damn thing.
~ John Morrison
Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical equivalent of going nuclear and stupid at the same time.
~ John P. Avlon
The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of the New Testament Gospels pile up reasons to turn off the television and listen to Jesus.
~ John Piper