Argument Quotes
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles -
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
George Washington -
To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
Brown Campbell -
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
Sam Harris -
Good argument is intended to persuade another.
Barry Eisler -
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
E. P. Thompson -
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
E. W. Howe -
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
Sam Harris -
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
Sandra Day O'Connor -
I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.
Rian Johnson -
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn -
Follow the argument wherever it leads.
Socrates
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian -
I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
Adam Driver -
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.
Maurice Saatchi -
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Zadie Smith -
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
Nancy Gibbs -
I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
Iain Duncan Smith
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor -
Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
Damien Fahey -
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
Larry Flynt -
I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.
Kara DioGuardi