Argument Quotes

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.

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

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

My life is my argument.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

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

Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

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

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

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.