Argument Quotes
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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent of the powers of the Mind; and has at once shown what are the Principles of Natural Philosophy, and so far derived from them their consequences, that he seems to have exhausted his Argument, and left little to be done by those that shall succeed him.a
Edmond Halley
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People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
J. C. Ryle -
The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.
Napoleon Hill -
My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.
Margaret Chan -
For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
William James -
The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
Thomas Sowell -
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When God says something, the argument is over.
R. C. Sproul -
It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
John Maynard Keynes -
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
John Wilkins -
Debate is the death of conversation.
Emil Ludwig -
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
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The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific.
Claude C. Hopkins -
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.
William Strunk, Jr. -
So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
John Stuart Mill -
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
Amy Poehler -
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare -
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno
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It was amazing to have Mourinho call me, even though I'd been warned before how he would appeal to me. I listened to his arguments about why I should move to United. But at that time I was hesitant between staying at Leicester or leaving for Chelsea.
N'Golo Kante -
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.
William Warburton -
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson -
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
William Henry Moody