Quotes About Argument

When students are taught to approach argument through inquiry, good things happen: they choose topics worthy of arguing, they gain ownership (through choice) of their writing, and their teacher is not stuck in Groundhog Day reading the same argument paper over and over. Key

The three most fatal diseases in the West are: small pox, cholera, and the ignorance to argue with a long-haired, whisky-drinkin' liar.

Another oft-used argument is that pillow lavas should be found on Mt. Ararat if it formed underwater. For those unfamiliar with pillow lavas, they are formed when a volcanic eruption occurs underwater. The lavas that come in contact with water cause it to harden quickly in masses that look "like a pillow.

ZOS and Scire had a fierce argument as to who had been to the Witches' Sabbath, what the Witches' Sabbath actually was, and so on. Scire drew his magical athame and showed ZOS the strange characters on the hilt. ZOS should have blanched before them but he didn't, saying he "knew all them symbols and more

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution '... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

McConnell writes, "In ten years the pendulum has swung from 'design everything' to 'design nothing.' But the alternative to BDUF [Big Design Up Front] isn't no design up front, it's a Little Design Up Front (LDUF) or Enough Design Up Front (ENUF)." This is a strawman argument. The alternative to designing before implementing is designing after implementing.

There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

I was unable to understand how a perfectly rational argument could meet with such emotional resistance.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result

The striking thing with Thoreau is not the actual content of the argument. After all, sages in earliest Antiquity had already proclaimed their contempt for possessions ... What impresses is the form of the argument. For Thoreau's obsession with calculation runs deep ... He says: keep calculating, keep weighing. What exactly do I gain, or lose?

Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason's having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.

Mi gente sabe cómo luchar contra los mejores, pero con palabras, con montones de palabras.

you did too! your eyes begged me, and you can't deny it. You couldn't see your eyes , so you have no idea what they were doing" A Protracted pause. Then, quite calmly, he said "I think thats the most illogical arguement i've ever heard".

In all the time we spent together, we had only one argument. I can't even remember what it was about; I just remember that he yelled at me. Ten minutes after he left, he called me on the phone from his house: "WHO WAS THAT MADMAN YOU HAD IN YOUR HOUSE? I COULD HEAR THE YELLING ALL THE WAY OVER HERE. YOU SHOULD NEVER LET CRAZY PEOPLE INTO YOUR HOUSE—DON'T YOU KNOW THAT? THEY COULD BE DANGEROUS.

I hadn't heard such a ridiculous piece of sophistry since the days when the old shaykh who lived in a box in our alley in Algiers tried to prove that the entire Earth was flat because the city of Mecca was flat. Which it isn't.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

The argument that a particular project will be "self-financing" is usually the first refuge of politicians defending the indefensible.

It's funny how you use logic in an argument and think it will persuade me.

Sean cracked a smile. "They are chickens." "Technically they're not even avian." "Dina, we're going to host sixty-one space chickens." I gave up. "Yes." "And they're going to argue philosophy.

Non ho il genio della lite diceva. Indro Montanelli racconta Carlo Cattaneo

He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something like: Solaris shites all over 2001, and then listening to him arguing vehemently against it. Or, alternatively, waiting for him to say it, and then being expected to argue engingly, as if to agree, even if we do, is a sign that we're effete proofs. I can't be bothered with it and I can't even be bothered to tell him that I can'be be bothered.

Ah wis gaunny say thit Tommy hud a choice; wee Maria disnae. Aw that would huv done wis precipitate an argument aboot whair choice began and ended. How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? Wish tae fuck ah knew. Wish tae fuck ah knew anything.