Top 100 Quotes About Arguments
#1. It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.
Ben H. Winters
#2. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
Andrea Dworkin
#3. His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#4. Don't ever think $7,000 isn't a lot of money in baseball. I've had huge arguments over a lot less.
Jim Bouton
#5. There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
Charles Kennedy
#6. The bash built-in type command searches your environment (including aliases, keywords, functions, built-ins, and files in the $PATH) for executable commands matching its arguments and displays the type and location of any matches.
Anonymous
#7. I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you've had a bad day, come over and hold your hair when you're sick. How much clearer can I make this?
Genevieve Dewey
#8. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
Auliq Ice
#9. The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Roger Bacon
#10. With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
#11. Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.
Kent Beck
#12. Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one's keyboard.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#13. After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable ... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.
Jim Cramer
#14. Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
Abraham Lincoln
#15. And even though we have read all the arguments of Plato and Aristotle, we shall never become philosophers if we are unable to make a sound judgement on matters which come up for discussion; in this case what we would seem to have learnt would not be science but history.
Rene Descartes
#16. A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments.
Scott Adams
#17. Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments, not in human intelligence, but in God.
Theodore Austin-Sparks
#18. People are rarely persuaded by arguments, but more often by experiences.
Rob Bell
#19. Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera
#20. 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
#21. Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
Michael Servetus
#22. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.
Thomas Jefferson
#23. Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
Donald Rumsfeld
#24. I've often wondered if Morality is an attribute of Reason. Of course, evil is always buttressed by 'reasonable' arguments. Yet, what if True Reason is an attribute of Morality, and True Morality an attribute of Reason?
Rikki Ducornet
#25. Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't
Bill Whittle
#26. I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.
Patton Oswalt
#27. To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
Aristophanes
#28. I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.
Lech Walesa
#29. Sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.
Lena Dunham
#30. The shallower our arguments, the more intense we became.
Don DeLillo
#31. No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.
Auliq Ice
#32. The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.
Mortimer J. Adler
#33. You can't imagine the excuses a woman will invent for a man's not telling her that he loves her - pitiable arguments that she would see through at a glance if any other woman used them!
Edith Wharton
#34. But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.
Rene Girard
#35. As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.
Joseph Rotblat
#36. Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
Max Von Laue
#37. In a man whose reasoning powers are good, fallacious arguments are evidence of bias.
Bertrand Russell
#38. If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
Frank Herbert
#39. Engaging irrational people with rational arguments is irrational.
Grant McLachlan
#40. The satisfaction an imbecile derives from having right on his side and being certain of success is especially irritating.
Marcel Proust
#41. When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive that they can only succeed when people aren't thinking clearly.
Glenn Reynolds
#42. History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things.
John H. Arnold
#43. scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,
Peter Unger
#45. In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless discussions and arguments amongst myriad interests, and funds have to be found where they might.
Shashi Tharoor
#46. The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
L. Neil Smith
#47. Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#48. He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.
Leo Tolstoy
#49. 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
#50. He leaned in then and kissed me again, sweet and soft and tender, silencing my arguments and stealing my breath, making me wonder how one simple gesture could be so tragically lovely.
Kimberly Derting
#51. Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
Os Guinness
#52. In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
Octavio Paz
#53. Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.
Tyler Oakley
#54. Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal grandfather's teak desk required a new panel, which never quite matched the others. Intellectual debate can be very hard on furniture.
Nancy Kress
#55. Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
Plato
#56. Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
#57. Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.
Linda Perlstein
#58. His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.
Ian Caldwell
#59. Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.
John Schlesinger
#60. Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.
Barbara Kingsolver
#61. The tears brimming in her eyes make me stop. I cannot suffer a woman to cry. Elizabeth and I have an agreement: she does not cry in arguments anymore and I let her win them all.
Roberto Calas
#63. Stupid arguments and the desire to be right -- that's what drives people apart -- that or death.
Frances Norris
#64. 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
#65. Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
Billy Corgan
#66. Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.
Euripides
#67. Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
Robert Lane Greene
#68. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
Francis Chan
#69. I'm finally beginning to realize that you can only fight with someone over the same thing so many times before you're burned out.
Anna Todd
#70. 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
#71. There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
Bob Geldof
#72. God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#73. Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.
Gay Hendricks
#74. The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
Kenneth R. Miller
#75. Sometimes to guide my choices is not the validity of the arguments of a party but the stupidity of the other arguments.
Luigina Sgarro
#76. There is a power in the direct glance of a sincere and loving human soul, which will do more to dissipate prejudice and kindle charity than the most elaborate arguments.
George Eliot
#77. He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#78. Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.
Auliq Ice
#79. Never argue Greek legends with a Greek...
Kate Walker
#81. Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith Martin
#82. There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
#83. If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
Sam Harris
#84. One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.
Niall Ferguson
#85. I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.
Charles Dickens
#86. You can win the lottery, but not an argument.
Marty Rubin
#87. Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized ... because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers' arguments were deeply flawed.
William Wilberforce
#88. The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.
Francois Hollande
#89. When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.
Laura Kipnis
#90. If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
Jonathan Haidt
#91. So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.
Augustine Of Hippo
#92. Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
George Whitefield
#93. When you over Stretch your finger, it gets hurt
Samar Sudha
#94. Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.
Linus Torvalds
#95. Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments.
Himmilicious
#96. The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.
Rob Bell
#97. Detailed scientific arguments by the authors present a serious challenge to the expositors of the Copernican Principle (that man is merely an impure lump of carbon crawling about on the surface of an insignificant speck of cosmic dust).
David Medved
#98. The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.
Ronald Fisher
#99. I'd be lying if I wrote that I remember exactly what he said. I don't. Which is the sad half life of arguments - we usually remember our side better.
Leslie Jamison
#100. Arguments are too much like disputes.
Jane Austen
