Quotes
Quotes about Argument
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Tears are not arguments.
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
The Fawn and His Mother A young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.
I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.
His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.
