Argument Quotes

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments, not in human intelligence, but in God.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

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

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

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

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Win through your actions, never through argument.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

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

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

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?

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

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

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

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

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.