Avoid Arguments Quotes

#1. Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

Dale Carnegie

#2. Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

Norman Vincent Peale

#3. Showing respect for others when they don't agree with you, and during the times when you don't agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully.

Ellen J. Barrier

#4. To process thoughts well is a matter of being able to avoid confusion, detect ambiguities, keep things in mind one at a time, make reliable arguments, become aware of alternatives, and so on.

Simon Blackburn

#5. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Roger Bacon

#6. Critical thinking requires reflection and analysis of various viewpoints. This does not mean that all positions are correct - not at all! This simply means that one should avoid willed ignorance, and instead carefully analyze all arguments.

Van Jacob E. Vleet

#7. 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

#8. By all means, avoid words - threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Philip Guston

#10. After all, all human beings are the same - made up of flesh, bone, and blood. We all want happiness, and we all try to avoid suffering. We are the members of one single human family, and our arguments are born from secondary causes. Disputes, lies, and killings are useless.

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people who care about each other can work out their differences in a calm and reasoned way.

Po Bronson

#12. If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

Al Yankovic