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Quotes About Arguments

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties
~ Timothy Keller
What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.
~ Fela Durotoye
but she never wanted to be in a relationship ever again. Because relationships were the worst. So many obligations. So many compromises. So many arguments. Someone always got destroyed in the end. Sometimes everyone got destroyed in the end.
~ Jami Attenberg
Becoming a team didn't mean the end of their arguments. But it did mean that the arguments became a part of the adventure, became discussions not threats. To an outsider the arguments would appear to be the same because feeling like part of a team is something that happens invisibly. You might call it caring. You could even call it love.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
~ Orison Swett Marden
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.
~ Steven Strogatz
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.
~ David Novak
I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.
~ Kevin Hart
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.
~ David Ignatius
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
~ Rene Descartes
But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.
~ Rene Girard
The arguments themselves did not appear to me to be any better simply because they were better expressed; eloquence did not make them true." St. Augustine page 85
~ Rex Warner, translator
Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the crimes committed by their own side or recollect them in such a way that evades accepting full responsibility. That politicians are so able to evoke historical arguments in these ways results from a prior failure of the society to engage in a full and frank encounter with past wrongdoings.
~ Richard Ashby Wilson
The Means to Prosperity articles had momentous impact – not only because the pleasure felt in understanding subtle arguments predisposes people towards accepting their conclusions. The articles sparked international discussions which inaugurated the oncoming Keynesian Revolution.
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
Aristotle got tired of hearing lousy arguments in the marketplace and the assembly. So he decided to develop reasoning templates to apply to arguments in order to analyze them for validity.
~ Richard E. Nisbett
By late afternoon, the chamber smelled of frustration and arguments gone stale.
~ Kate Mosse
He wanted to work in politics, like his parents, and make his country a better place for people such as the Aberowen coal miners. For that he needed political meetings where people could speak their minds, and newspapers that could attack the government, and pubs where men could have arguments without looking over their shoulders to see who was listening. Fascism
~ Ken Follett
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
~ J. Sidlow Baxter
In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.
~ Jim Cymbala
Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.
~ Gay Hendricks
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
~ William Penn
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
~ William Penn
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers' arguments were deeply flawed.
~ William Wilberforce