Quotes About Counter Arguments

#1. 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

#2. The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists.

Diane Coyle

#3. If you only know your own side of a case, then your belief is likely to be inadequate. You need to be able to refute counter-arguments to your position otherwise you aren't justified in your belief even if it happens to be true.

Nigel Warburton

#4. I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

Mary Shelley

#5. Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

Andrea Gibson

#6. I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

Lady Gaga

#7. I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.

Henry Rollins

#8. History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.

Charles Augustus Briggs

#9. Believe that you are what you want to be.

Neville Goddard

#10. A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want ... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#13. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God's children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. We are given chances, and after that it is up to us. If we have neither the courage nor the wit to grasp them and follow them up, then they are gone, and gone for ever. At least we must try.

Mary Stewart

#15. If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

Patti Smith

#16. Do your work and I shall know you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Benjamin Tucker

#18. How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

Kamila Shamsie

#19. The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.

Will Advise

#20. Remember: don't let uncertainty about your future paralyze your present.

Stefanie Weisman

#21. I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

Poorna Jagannathan