Quotes About Perspective

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

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

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

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.

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.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.