Quotes
Quotes about Argument
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
A teacher appears--for whom no one was prepared, and whom no one could have expected. The argument from prophecy, on which the early apologists laid so much weight, was all ex post facto. No one beforehand could have conjectured a tenth of it. But without the background of Jewish prophet and psalmist, of Jewish national history, it would be hard to understand Jesus. If prophet and historian and legislator did not in type and enigma foretell in detail the story of his life, he was none the less their heir. None the less was he their heir in that he was not in bondage to his inheritance, but... a "minister not of the letter but of the spirit", and the whole of his activity lay "in newness of spirit". Without conjecturing what he might have been on another soil or of another stock--a type of guesswork always futile in history--we have to recognize the... immense spiritual wealth that lay ready to his hand.
The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain factsâto events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign for ever.
