Thoughts of Argument Quotes in Englsih with Image

It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it'd damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.

- Bill Murray Download or Share

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory.

- Leonardo da Vinci

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

- Darryl F. Zanuck

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I wil plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

- William Lloyd Garrison

Good critical thinkers compose their own arguments, subject them to critical analysis, and use what they;ve learned from this critical analysis to compose new and better arguments.

George W. Rainbolt

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent.  People know this, and steer clear of me at parties.  Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

- Dave Barry

When you claim that someone is making a bad argument, you're either constructing an argument to show that someone else's argument fails the true premises test or constructing an argument to show that the other person's argument fails the proper from test.

George W. Rainbolt

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.

- Sydney J. Harris

It is never ridicule, but a compliment that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort... only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

Criss Jami

Argument Quotes List

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

- Argument Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld Download or Share

Arguments are often like melodramas, they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

- Argument Quotes by Gay Hendricks Download or Share

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

- Argument Quotes in English by Oscar Wilde Download or Share

Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.

- Louis Brandeis Quotation

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

- A Quotation From Josh Billings

As you watch an argumentative tennis match, you need to keep track of where the ball is.

- George W. Rainbolt

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

- John Major

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

- Charles Caleb Corton

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

- Michel de Montaigne

It's amazing how far the arguments can go.

- Patrick Doyle

The argument is at an end.

- Saint Augustine

There's no winning arguments with your parents.

- Wendelin Van Draanen

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

- Louis D. Brandeis

Critical thinkers choose beliefs based on good arguments.

George W. Rainbolt

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

- William G. McAdoo

Sometimes, silence is the best way to win an argument.

- Jorge P. Guerrero

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

- William Shakespeare

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

- Louis D. Brandeis

If an argument has a valid argument form, then if its premises are true, its conclusion must also be true.

William Hughes

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, argument an exchange of ignorance.

- Robert Quillen

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.

- Deepak Chopra

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

- Dale Carnegie

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

- George Santayana

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

- Salman Rushdie

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

- Lord Quintin Hogg

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

- Andre Maurois

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

- Daniel Dennett

A valid argument form is any set of truth-functional statements such that every argument with that form is a valid argument.

William Hughes

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

- Edgar Watson Howe

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

- Joseph Joubert

The less sound a man's argument, the louder he talks.

Evan Esar

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

- Indira Gandhi

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

- G. K. Chesterton

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

- Oscar Wilde

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles,or sympathetic tears.

- J. Sidlow Baxter

Argument is between two sides or individuals, never say silly to your friend because he/she never argue on oneself.

- Wilson M. Mukama

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

- Robert G. Ingersoll

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

- Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero *

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

- Jean De La Fontaine

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

- Emmeline Pankhurst

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

- Anonymous

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

- Thomas C. Haliburton

That awkward moment when you're in a middle of an argument & you realize you're wrong.

- Anonymous

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

- Rafael Nadal

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

- Wilkie Collins

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

- Pierre Beaumarchais

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

- Publilius Syrus

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

- Victor Hugo

Arguing is the olympics of talking.

- Stewart Stafford

Men argue, nature acts.

- Voltaire

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

- Spanish Proverb

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.

- Richard Bach

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Never argue when you're winning.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

- Pierre De Beaumarchais

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

Argument Sayings in English

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

- Christopher Buckley

Weakness on both sides is the motto of all quarrels.

- Voltaire

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

- Christopher Hitchens

I'd rather lose an argument to you, than lose you to an argument.

- Anonymous

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

- Edward Gibbon

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

Wilkie Collins

Listening to both sides to the story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.

- Frank Tyger

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

- Andre Maurois

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years.  it lasted forty-three years.

- Cathy Ladman

An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.

- Anonymous

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

- Noam Chomsky

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.

Leigh Bardugo

Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him

- Tim Kreider

Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

Leigh Bardugo

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

William Blake

If you go in for argument, take care fo your temper.  Your logic, if yu have any, will take care of itself.

- Joseph Farrell

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Criss Jami

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hannah Arendt

I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

Criss Jami

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Ben Goldacre

Argument Sayings

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

- Argument Quotes by Edward de Bono Download or Share

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

- Argument Quotes by Plato Download or Share

The argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

- Argument Thought by Ayn Rand Download or Share

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.

Voltaire Download or Share

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Thomas Carlyle Download or Share

He who strikes the first below admits he's lost the argument.

Chinese Proverb Download or Share

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert Download or Share

Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.

Mark Twain Download or Share

Use soft words and hard arguments.

- Argument Quote by English Proverb Download or Share

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Jill Ruckelshaus Download or Share

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

- Amit Kalantri Download or Share

Clear statement is argument.

- W.G.T. Shedo Download or Share

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

- Andre Gide Download or Share