Quotes About Argument

Love of enemies is a central moral conviction of the Christian faith; theologians who see their work as a mode of Christian life ought to love their intellectual "enemies": to respect them as human beings, even to seek their friendship, and certainly not to let a personal squabble rob them of a good and productive argument with them.

Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind, he had said, as logical as ever.

If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part.

The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.

There is no more irritating fellow than the one who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or freedom, by quoting from the dictionary. Lexicographers may be respected as authorities on word usage, but they are not the ultimate founts of wisdom.

Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There

His propositions are nothing but expressions of personal opinion unless they are supported by reasons.

we want to know not merely what his propositions are, but also why he thinks we should be persuaded to accept them.

RULE 5. FIND THE IMPORTANT WORDS AND COME TO TERMS. The sixth rule can be expressed thus: RULE 6. MARK THE MOST IMPORTANT SENTENCES IN A BOOK AND DISCOVER THE PROPOSITIONS THEY CONTAIN. The seventh rule is this: RULE 7. LOCATE OR CONSTRUCT THE BASIC ARGUMENTS IN THE BOOK BY FINDING THEM IN THE CONNECTION OF SENTENCES.

There are many paragraphs in any book that do not express an argument at all—perhaps not even part of one.

RULE 7, as follows: FIND IF YOU CAN THE PARAGRAPHS IN A BOOK THAT STATE ITS IMPORTANT ARGUMENTS; BUT IF THE ARGUMENTS ARE NOT THUS EXPRESSED, YOUR TASK IS TO CONSTRUCT THEM, BY TAKING A SENTENCE FROM THIS PARAGRAPH, AND ONE FROM THAT, UNTIL YOU HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER THE SEQUENCE OF SENTENCES THAT STATE THE PROPOSITIONS THAT COMPOSE THE ARGUMENT.

Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap, declared Listen. You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met. Both of you be quiet

It is a painful irony that while the right is forever casting climate change as a left-wing plot, most leftists and liberals are still averting their eyes, having yet to grasp that climate science has handed them the most powerful argument against unfettered capitalism since William Blake's "dark Satanic Mills" blackened England's skies (which, incidentally, was the beginning of climate change).

then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I

It's a grogler, you brainless cod! I yelled at him. No, it's a hyd-oh shit, it's a grogler, Orion said, and just stood there for a dazed, gaping moment.

I would say that when what started as an outsider's argument becomes the conventional wisdom of a Girl Scout troop, it is a sign of an evolution in conciousness.

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Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.

Sometimes, when he wanted to hide or not outright lie, he chose to speak in English. He used to break into it when he argued with my mother, and it drove her crazy when he did and she would just plead, No, no! as though he had suddenly introduced a switchblade into a clean fistfight.

Perhaps the most common argument against the advocates of cancel culture is that they're lame and uncreative - and I think they generally are.

There's always merit to having a debate.

I listen to heavy metal thanks to my son. When I argue with him on the kind of music he is listening to, he says, 'listen to it.' I listen and think well that is not so bad!

I'm dirty in an argument; I'll win by any method. But I change my mind all the time and I will admit when I'm wrong.

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.