Argument famous quotes

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
-- Adam Clarke

#Mean #Ideas #Argument

The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.
-- Adam LaVorgna

#Sake #Financial #Argument

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.
-- Alan Woods

#Support #Woven #Argument

My life is my argument.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Argument #Life Is

Let your life be your argument.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Basketball #Argument #Life Is

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.
-- Alberto Fujimori

#Agreement #Argument #Used

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
-- Alexander Pope

#Grace #Argument #Instruction

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
-- Ali Smith

#Book #Argument #Proof

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.
-- Alice Miller

#Anger #Way #Argument

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

#Atheist #Atheism #Argument

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.
-- Allan Lichtman

#Water #Argument

Argument should be polite as well as logical.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Argument #Logical #Should

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.
-- Alvin Plantinga

#Religion #Argument #Said

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
-- Amartya Sen

#Alive #Argument #Defeated

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Answers #Demand #Argument

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'
-- Amy Poehler

#Argument #Cry

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
-- Amy Tan

#Mother #Argument #Middle

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.
-- Anabel Jensen

#Lasts #Firsts #Argument

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
-- Andre Maurois

#Opinion #Arguing #Argument

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#Real #Argument #Enough

We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we understood each other and got along much better. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Sports #Way #Argument

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
-- Angela Carter

#Eggs #Salt #Argument

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
-- Ann Coulter

#Opponents #Emotion #Argument

... I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ...
-- Anne Morice

#People #Action #Argument

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.
-- Antony Flew

#Design #Argument #Persuasive

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
-- Aristophanes

#Art #Triumph #Argument

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
-- Aristotle

#Long #Impossible #Argument

History is, indeed, an argument without end.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#History #Argument #Ends

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Argument #Rudeness #Eclipse

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
-- Auguste Rodin

#Art #Morality #Argument

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Argument #Victim #Judged

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
-- Ayn Rand

#Intellectual #Liberty #Argument

If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.
-- Barack Obama

#Country #Body #Argument

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
-- Barbara Deming

#Heart #Pressure #Argument

The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isnt really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
-- Barry Eisler

#Quality #Want #Argument

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
-- Barry Lyga

#Argument #Break #Josh

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Ideas #Argument #Metaphor

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
-- Ben Goldacre

#People #Argument #Reason

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

#Powerful #Heart #Argument

A good life is a main argument.
-- Ben Jonson

#Good Life #Inspirational Life #Argument

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.
-- Benjamin Cardozo

#May #Argument #Scales

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Argument #Comprehension #Antagonist

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
-- Bill McKibben

#Thinking #Global Warming #Argument

America is the longest argument in the world.
-- Bill Moyers

#America #World #Argument

A silly row which got out of hand.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Silly #Hands #Argument

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't
-- Bill Whittle

#Talking #Want #Argument

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.
-- Bjorn Lomborg

#Wings #Guy #Argument

We must reinforce argument with results.
-- Booker T. Washington

#Argument #Results

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
-- Brian Clough

#Player #Twenties #Argument

Love is a very compelling argument.
-- Brian Houston

#Love Is #Argument #Compelling

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

#People #Dancing #Argument

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
-- C. S. Lewis

#Arguing #Patient #Argument

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
-- Calvin Trillin

#Colonialism #Sandwiches #Argument

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

#Science #Ideas #Argument

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)
-- Carl Sagan

#Hierarchy #Dominance #Argument

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'
-- Carl Sagan

#Argument #Authority #Mistrust

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.
-- Cass Sunstein

#People #Sides #Argument

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin
-- Charles Darwin

#Facts #Sides #Argument

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Sides #Argument #Difficult

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
-- Charles Kennedy

#Events #Satisfaction #Argument

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.
-- Charles M. Vest

#Hands #Tuition #Argument

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.
-- Charles Siebert

#Civilization #Arguing #Argument

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Blood #Argument #Christ

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.
-- Chris Patten

#Military #Argument #Moments

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Arguing #Argument

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Progress #Argument #Confrontation

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Argument

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.
-- Christopher Kelk Ingold

#Science #Biographies #Argument

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.
-- Constance Hale

#Writing #Adventure #Argument

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Art #Would Be #Argument

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
-- Cornell Capa

#War #Vietnam #Argument

Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.
-- Craig Stone

#Running #Silly #Argument

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Would Be #Generations #Argument

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
-- Damien Fahey

#Funny #Evolution #Argument

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
-- Dan Abrams

#Decision #Argument #Boring

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.
-- Daniel Kahneman

#Dominance #Emotion #Argument

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.
-- Dave Edmunds

#Aggravation #Interesting #Argument

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
-- David F. Houston

#Facts #Argument #Prairie

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.
-- David Hare

#Party #Dinner #Argument

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
-- David McCullough

#Past #Firsts #Argument

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams
-- David McCullough

#Argument #Abigail #Ostentatious

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.
-- Deborah Tannen

#Fighting #Views #Argument

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
-- Doris Egan

#Religious #People #Argument

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
-- Douglas Adams

#Opinion #Logic #Argument

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Winning #Argument #Contention

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Argument #Conscious #Can Not

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf...
-- Edward Miner Gallaudet

#People #Weight #Argument

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
-- Edward St Aubyn

#Men #Argument #Adverbs

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.
-- Ellen G. White

#Christian #Favors #Argument

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
-- Elliott Smith

#Music #People #Argument

Debate is the death of conversation.
-- Emil Ludwig

#Argument #Debate #Conversation

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
-- Emile Durkheim

#Causes #Argument #Proof

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
-- Euripides

#Money #Argument #Logical

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.
-- Euripides

#Causes #Argument

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.
-- Evan Davis

#Issues #Way #Argument

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

#Listening #Sides #Argument

Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.
-- Francis Collins

#Atheist #Atheism #Argument

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
-- Frank Herbert

#Purpose #Argument #Thrive

Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?
-- Frank Schaeffer

#Answers #Kind #Argument

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?
-- Franny Billingsley

#Father #Use #Argument