Quotes About Understanding

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.