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Quotes About Arguments

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
~ James A. Garfield
One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.
~ Sharon Olds
The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
~ Francis Bacon
Wide are men's inquiries into uncertainties; wider still are their disputes about conjectures.
~ Tertullian
Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all at the same time.
~ Nick Hornby
And he'd agreed with her about all of it, except he hadn't agreed really; he'd just lost the arguments.
~ Nick Hornby
Unfortunately, assumptions are the seeds we sow that grow into future arguments
~ Laura Fredricks
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and . . . take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5, NIV).
~ Charles F. Stanley
In college he had been too much engrossed with other things to listen to the arguments, or to be influenced by the general atmosphere of unbelief
~ Grace Livingston Hill
By starting independently of submission to the truth and direction of Christ's Word, we shall never end our arguments anywhere but independently of Christ.
~ Greg L. Bahnsen
The characteristics of the reasoning of crowds are the association of dissimilar things possessing a merely apparent connection between each other, and the immediate generalisation of particular cases. It is arguments of this kind that are always presented to crowds by those who know how to manage them.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Certainly I remember feeling that it was his dream world, his symbol world, that we were dragged into during those first arguments, and it frightened me, being given--as I saw it--the part of a training dummy, outfitted in colours, slogans, that I could not see.
~ Gwendoline Riley
Despite my arguments, the doctors wouldn't release me from the hospital that night, and it was too late to let the kids visit me. A day without seeing my kids was torture. When I told the doctor that, all she said was, "Then this is our version of waterboarding.
~ James Patterson
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
~ Dennis Prager
I know that there are many excellent arguments for a universal form of basic income. Since everyone would get it, it would remove the stigma that dogs recipients of assistance and 'entitlements'.
~ Rutger Bregman
We've stayed with the business and even though we have the arguments and disagreements that eight guys in a building trying to do a job would have, we try to keep that off the cameras because it's too much drama. Really what it is is we have eight guys who are having fun doing what they do.
~ Richard Rawlings
I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.
~ Jessica Ennis-Hill
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty.
~ Reid Hoffman
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
Renowned for stating his convictions in the form of a paradox, as above, Chesterton, along with anyone who has something positive or equivocal to say about the human race, comes out on top in the crusade for truth. (There is nothing paradoxical about that.) Therefore, should your truth run counter to that of individuals who devise or applaud paradoxes that stiff up the status quo, you would be well advised to take your arguments, tear them up, and throw them in someone else's garbage.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Principled, informed arguments are a sign of intellectual health and vitality in a democracy.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
~ Thomas Paine