Quotes About Argument

It's arguing, in a very good and positive way. It's sort of sitting down and pulling an argument apart. I think that's a very oddly Jewish thing. And it's the chaos of family and a slight sort of cosy messiness of it all.

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

I like people with their own opinions, and I like people who argue with me. It's very exhausting to be in a room full of people who just nod and smile.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A]

They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with each other in anything, and that made their argument especially interesting and endless.

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted

Quien trata de convencer a una mujer, de refutarle su punto de vista con argumentos razonables, difícilmente llegará muy lejos.

But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.

I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.

I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think it's fun to debate.

Does that count as an argument? Can we kiss and make up now?""It was only half an argument.""Fine. Then, you kiss and I'll make up."I laughed until he effectively shut me up with his lips.

This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him.

Yes! The flies like it, too, and I like the flies, therefore I like it. And there are people who know so little as to think that madmen do not argue.

Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.

expostulate.

As with many tempests in teapots among small, contentious, ideologically charged groups with a sense of millennial mission, it is hard for outsiders with the perspective of time to figure out what they were thinking, and why, and everyone involved can only remember that their side was right, and the other side wrong, with the most uncharitable possible spin put on the whole contretemps.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. —Bene Gesserit Precept I

one hand, there are those who openly dismiss the philosophical aspect

persuasively, that