Quotes About Arguments
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
- James Harvey Robinson Quote
Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
- Unknown Quote
Sometimes when you're arguing with a fool, he's doing the same thing.
- Unknown Quote
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
- Robert Benchley Quote
He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
- Chinese Proverb
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller Quote
Use soft words and hard arguments.
- English Proverb
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
- Unknown Quote
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
- Robert Cuillen Quote
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
- Louis D. Brandeis Quote
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
- Pierre Beaumarchais Quote
Never argue with a fool, he'll get you down to his level and beat you with experience.
- Unknown Quote
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
- Edward de Bono Quote
I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.
- Mitch Hedberg Quote
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
- Oliver Goldsmith Quote
Argument does not answer. Facts do. - F.D. Van Amburgh, The Mental Spark Plug, 1923
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
- Dave Barry Quote
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
- Richard Carlson Quote
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
- Donald Rumsfeld Quote
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
- Dale Carnegie Quote
I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
- James McNeill Whistler Quote
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
- Jascha Heifetz Quote
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- G.K. Chesterton Quote
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh BIllings Quote
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill Quote
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
- Walter Savage Landor Quote
Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
- Richard Whately QUote
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
- Richard Whately Quote
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
- Publilius Syrus Quote
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
- Rodney Dangerfield Quote
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
- William G. McAdoo Quote
Argument is not always truth.
- Louis Kossuth Quote
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
- William Lloyd Garrison Qutoe
The truth is always the strongest argument.
- Sophocles Quote
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
- William Shakespeare Quote
When a fellow fails to agree with you, and you know you are right, why get all fussed up over the matter? Depending on how you accept an argument tells how big you are. - F.D. Van Amburgh, The Mental Spark Plug, 1923
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
- Irving Layton Quote
