Arguments Quotes

• 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

• Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Sex
  • Lies
  • Arguments

• It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Public
  • Humanitarian
  • Sensitivity

• 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

• All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Arguments
  • Defeated
  • Logically

• Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Home
  • Opponents
  • Thiners

• It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

  

  Alan Woods
  • Support
  • Arguments
  • Thesis

• Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Truth
  • Dream
  • Arguments

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

  

  Gay Hendricks
  • Arguments
  • Couples

• Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

  

  Alister E. McGrath
  • Atheism
  • Arguments
  • Uncertain

• I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

  

  Allan Kaprow
  • Art
  • Avoid
  • Arguments

• Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Logic
  • Arguments
  • Methods

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

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Command
  • Arguments
  • Penalties

• I ain’t up on sillygisms, but I can give you some arguments that nobody can answer.

  

  George W. Plunkitt
  • Give
  • Answer
  • Arguments

• ...sacred doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Believe
  • Authority
  • Revelation

• President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great - I thought a great display of presidential leadership.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Arguments
  • President Lincoln

• When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

  

  George Eliot
  • Book
  • Dinner
  • Arguments

• Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

  

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
  • Stupid
  • Understand
  • Arguments

• Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.

  

  George Takei
  • Weapons
  • Access
  • Arguments

• Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

  

  Sidney Hook
  • Answer
  • Opponent
  • Arguments

• Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

  

  Paul Harvey
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Arguments

• Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Society
  • Political
  • Culture

• I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Say
  • Arguments
  • Basis

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