Quotes About Both Sides Of An Argument

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

John Major

#2. The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

Ruth Brown

#3. Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#4. The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

J.P. Donleavy

#5. Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

Graham Elliot

#6. A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.

Aesop

#7. The sunlight bores the daylights out of me

Rolling Stones

#8. The number of people that reside on our side will be the determination for a good result. Or a terrible one.

Shannon A. Thompson

#9. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

James Russell Lowell

#10. Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

Jim Rohn

#11. Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

Nina Bawden

#14. Every once in awhile, have a really good argument with yourself. I mean really get pissed off. Take both sides. Then look in the mirror, and in the middle of the argument say, "You know, you're a pain in my butt. I'm not arguing with you. Get lost.

Art Hochberg

#15. I am not strong or weak i am exactly what the situation requires(versatile)

Mohlalefi J Motsima

#16. I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

Charlie Munger

#17. A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?"
Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#18. I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Edward R. Murrow

#19. If you set the example you will not have to set the rules.

Zig Ziglar

#20. I don't believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of 'fairness' is what's troubling to me.

Aaron Sorkin

#21. The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

Criss Jami

#22. [Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.

Jeffrey Rosen

#23. There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

Mordecai Richler

#24. There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

Evangeline Lilly

#25. The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

Evan Esar

#26. He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument.

Tina Packer

#27. She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

David Nicholls

#28. It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Charles Dudley Warner

#29. I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

Mary Timony

#30. The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.

Wayne Dyer

#31. The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

Marianne Williamson

#32. I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.

John Cornyn

#33. Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

Rich Burlew