Quotes About Understanding

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

Agreeing to differ. [Lat., Discors concordia.]

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

Your views are now my own.

Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.