Quotes About Argument

They verbally attacked each other with Mao's quotations, making cynical use of his guru-like elusiveness––it was easy to select a quotation of Mao's to suit any situation, or even both sides of the same argument.

That,' said Benny, 'is about as convincing an argument as the works of those historians who claim there was a fifth Teletubby.

The world is full of annoyances, none more infuriating than a fool with a valid point.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

That's just copying Daffy and her Dancing Daisies.' 'I'm not copying,' said Perfect Peter. 'Are too.' 'Am not.' 'Don't be horrid, Henry,' said Mum. 'Peter, that's a lovely

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

The fact that La Follette had to use machine tactics to beat the machine suggests that machines themselves are in some way intrinsic to politics—that is, all political leaders must assemble coalitions whose members do not always share the same goals, and must often be brought along with bribery, inducements, threats, and argument.

Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.

a discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the supernatural

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error.

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Atheists have had to resort to wild speculations to give chance more of a chance.

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?

The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

Please," she whispered, sounding more frantic. "Don't leave me down in these chasms alone." He smiled wryly. "Is it really this hard for you to let me win one single argument?" "Yes!

Put two men together, and they will find something to argue about. Gather them into groups, and one group will find reason to oppress or attack another.

Food?" he asked. "Is that your answer to every disagreement?" Eshonai asked, breaking her song. "It's hard to argue with your mouth full," Thude said.

Jasnah didn't want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a pithy epigram.

You should never debate an idiot, Shallan. No more than you'd use your best sword to spread butter.

Not contradicting a point and proving it are different things.

Elend smiled, preparing his next argument. He could keep this discussion going for quite sometime. For, if there was one thing in particular that he had learned by growing up in his father's house it was this: how to annoy people.