Quotes About Argument

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.