Top 100 Quotes About Arguments
#1. Discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good
Benjamin Franklin
#2. We invent casuistical arguments for ourselves, we take a lesson from the Jesuits, and, for a time, contrive to allay our own doubts and convince ourselves that what we are doing is necessary, absolutely necessary, in a good cause. That is the way we are made; it is all as clear as daylight.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.
Gerald Weaver
#4. my favorite is the cosmological argument. But cosmological and teleological arguments don't touch people where they live. The
William Lane Craig
#5. Visions of paradise. That was exactly what had led him down into hell, into endless arguments with his family, into such a powerful feeling of guilt that he had felt incapable of doing anything and had finally sought refuge in another world.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. Blood is thicker than anger.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#7. ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.
Thomas Sowell
#8. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
#9. It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
Rachel Sklar
#10. When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.
Sam Harris
#11. All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.
Morris Kline
#12. It is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.
Massimo Pigliucci
#13. Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities - we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities.
Richard Feldman
#14. 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
#15. When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
Vinoba Bhave
#16. One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
Vance Havner
#17. It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.
Stephen Fry
#18. I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.
Colin Firth
#19. There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
Chris Patten
#20. There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#21. Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Tryon Edwards
#22. 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
#23. All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is it the lack of fiber? Is it the refined carbohydrates?But we don't have to worry about it. We just have to try to get off that diet to the extent we can.
Michael Pollan
#24. There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.
Ronda Rousey
#25. Researchers discovered that people who have just consumed caffeinated drinks were more likely to be swayed by arguments about various controversial topics.55 In short, good evidence that there really is no such thing as a free lunch or an innocent cup of coffee.
Richard Wiseman
#26. 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.
Arthur Helps
#27. CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
Heather Brooke
#28. I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good days, bad days, loneliness, happiness, anger, anxiety, pressure, relationships ... EVERYTHING.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#29. I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.
Dinesh D'Souza
#30. You must determine your goal. What matters most? Winning arguments? Or resembling Christ? Even in the heat of an argument we should be asking ourselves if we are acting like Christ.
Francis Chan
#31. If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
John McCarthy
#32. I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
Buddy Hackett
#33. The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.
George Eliot
#34. Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
Doris Egan
#35. [T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.
Irving M. Copi
#36. Verbal arguments should always be suspect.
Lee Spetner
#37. Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
James E. Faust
#38. Nobody tells us as little girls that we may fall in love and have moments of hating our beloved, or have ridiculous arguments at 2 AM over something that neither person understands.
SARK
#39. Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.
Fethullah Gulen
#40. Her capacity for detail was astounding, if not highly annoying during arguments.
Karin Slaughter
#41. Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
Samuel Johnson
#42. The Affect Heuristic The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.
Daniel Kahneman
#43. One of the great commandments of science is, Mistrust arguments from authority.
Carl Sagan
#44. The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
Adam Davidson
#45. 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
#46. When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
Bjorn Lomborg
#47. Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
Immanuel Kant
#48. The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
Sandra Day O'Connor
#49. I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it ... I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
William Jennings Bryan
#50. The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.
Os Guinness
#51. Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours."
"Whose arguments should I use?
Franny Billingsley
#52. It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.
Jerry A. Fodor
#53. I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#55. I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
Amy Tan
#56. The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
Carl Lewis
#57. A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.
Stefan Molyneux
#58. 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
#59. I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
Benjamin Banneker
#60. It is not rational arguments but emotions that cause belief in a future life.
Bertrand Russell
#61. The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.
Ralph Hartley
#62. I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
Rene Descartes
#63. The fact that California was the most cosmopolitan state in the union, as a result of the gold rush, simply made white voters more susceptible to racist and xenophobic arguments.
H.W. Brands
#64. Concerning Existentialism, I've heard many persuasive arguments; however with infinity in every direction, including time, what I don't understand is why I won this crapshoot.
Hank Bracker
#65. Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
J.K. Rowling
#66. I became a slightly daft traveler, obsessed with beekeeping and professing to know all there was to know on the topic. I started arguments so others would correct me and speak of beekeepers they had known.
Robin Hobb
#67. We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Narendra Modi
#68. In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
Anton Chekhov
#70. When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with some one else - even though it sometimes produces rather fierce arguments.
C.S. Lewis
#71. So I watch my sadness, gleaming in all of its soft pastel glory. And I listen to the arguments against my sanity.
Brandi L. Bates
#72. I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.
Scott Westerfeld
#73. No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was set, and only death would break it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#74. I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
Madonna Ciccone
#75. It is no longer acceptable to simply assert your moral beliefs; you have to provide reasons for them, and those reasons had better be grounded in rational arguments and empirical evidence or else they will likely be ignored or rejected.
Michael Shermer
#76. Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
Stephen Covey
#77. All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
#78. We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.
Charlie Munger
#79. A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
#80. The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.
Ben Lindsey
#81. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
#82. So if you're on tour for eight months, a year ... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.
Joan Armatrading
#83. Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
Tertullian
#84. Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
Sophie Kinsella
#85. Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
Desiderius Erasmus
#86. I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I do think as well that a priori objections by philosophers to successful research programs in the sciences have a very bad track record.
Hilary Kornblith
#87. For the secret irony pervading these arguments is that they would never have occurred to consciences that had not in some profound way been shaped by the moral universe of a Christian culture.
David Bentley Hart
#88. I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. 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
#90. I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#91. Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
Gay Hendricks
#92. Arguments are never won by reason, but by men, who refuse to be reasonable
DR Caithness
#93. How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Walt Whitman
#94. people don't want doctrine, they don't want tracts, and they don't want our feeble arguments; they just want Him! (When will we learn that if people can be argued into the faith, then they can just as easily be argued out of it as well?)
Tommy Tenney
#95. The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths.
Corrado Ghinamo
#96. If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#97. You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.
Dean Koontz
#98. Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.
Gerry Spence
#99. There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. There have been times that we've had arguments with Brad [Dourif] because he comes in with very strong ideas and, as in any working relationship, sometimes you're going to disagree, and he always goes to the mat and I've just always appreciated that attitude, that he takes it so seriously.
David Kirschner
