Arguments Quotes

• I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

  

  Plato
  • Rest
  • Arguments
  • Socrates

• Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Time
  • Change
  • Opinion

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

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Intellect
  • Arguments
  • Rudeness

• It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Human Nature
  • Arguments
  • Predisposition

• The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Conduct
  • Arguments
  • Interfere

• Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Truth
  • Wrong
  • Upsets

• I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Movement
  • Agreement
  • Occasions

• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Poets
  • Manners
  • Arguments

• Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Strange
  • Speech
  • Extreme Case

• It's all about who gets to work and making sure they're legally present in our country. And to do that nationally E-verify becomes a key component. It certainly needs to available, effective and as inexpensive as possible and that employer needs to use it as a tool. Some of the arguments that are made about how it works or does not work don't carry much water with me. I've already used it for several years. It works.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Country
  • Present
  • Employer

• Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

  

  Euripides
  • Cause
  • Arguments
  • Lack

• Use the word cybernetics, Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Word
  • Arguments
  • Cybernetics

• On ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ we’d had one of our first arguments about the level of the bass guitar. Our engineer Mike Johnson had insisted to the others they were wrong to suggest turning it down. ‘It’s a great counterpoint,’ he’d said. ‘That’s what New Order is all about.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Guitar
  • Arguments
  • Insisted

• Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

  

  Nicholas Donabet Kristof
  • Role
  • Empathy
  • Arguments

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

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Arguments
  • Liberals
  • Conservatives

• When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Friend
  • Reason
  • Care

• I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

  

  Plato
  • Arguments
  • Observed
  • Probabilities

• Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

  

  Plutarch
  • Arguments
  • My Friend
  • Labours

• Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systmes to philosophy.

  

  Naum Gabo
  • Art
  • Philosophical
  • Systmes

• He was surrounded by peasants, on whom the teeth of his arguments could find no purchase.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Arguments
  • Surrounded
  • Peasants

• If there's one thing the international community should do, if only out of deference because he won the election, is to take seriously his arguments that coca products have a place in the international commodities market.

  

  Ethan Nadelmann
  • Election
  • Deference
  • International Community

• I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems to be the feedback, but that's hard to interpret.

  

  Brice Marden
  • Work
  • Benefits
  • Arguments

• it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Job
  • Speak
  • Images

• Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a table.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Questions
  • Campaign
  • Arguments

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