Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. Votes: 4
Robert QuillenLiberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. Votes: 4
Cass SunsteinAfter an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. Votes: 4
Mason CooleyYou never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. Votes: 4
Noam ChomskyAnger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. Votes: 3
George Savile, 1st Marquess of HalifaxThere is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument. Votes: 3
Henry Ward BeecherCapital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. Votes: 3
Marilyn vos SavantIn one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. Votes: 3
Susan GriffinThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonNobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt. Votes: 3
Danny TrejoAny authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Votes: 3
Rebecca WestNothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt Votes: 3
Darynda JonesAn aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory. Votes: 3
Gary L. FrancioneI'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. Votes: 3
Rafael NadalI don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote. Votes: 3
John KasichHe's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy) Votes: 3
Bobby RobsonHowever good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough. Votes: 3
David BerlinskiNo references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. Votes: 3
Vladimir PutinMistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed. Votes: 3
Thomas AquinasSir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Votes: 3
Samuel JohnsonThe difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. Votes: 3
Andre MauroisI don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person. Votes: 3
LissieThe only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. Votes: 3
Kim StanleyNever get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are? Votes: 3
Ray CombsThe other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. Votes: 3
George CarlinDon't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side Votes: 3
Baltasar GracianDon't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Votes: 3
Baltasar GracianSuffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past. Votes: 3
Byron KatieThe moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible. Votes: 3
Meir SoloveichikA man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. Votes: 3
Leonard RavenhillHe always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument. Votes: 3
Fred AllenShe is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat. Votes: 3
Catherynne M. ValenteNever get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?' Votes: 3
Ray CombsAny time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. Votes: 3
Phyllis DillerThe only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment. Votes: 3
Ruth BrownTo some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. Votes: 3
Vance HavnerI think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. Votes: 3
John MajorYou donât break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I donât. Votes: 3
Barry LygaI simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument. Votes: 3
Edward R. MurrowThe definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own. Votes: 3
James RozoffHow many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different? Votes: 3
Leonard NimoyWhen a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself. Votes: 3
Ann LandersThe inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight. Votes: 3
J.P. DonleavyCrime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them. Votes: 3
Charles SchumerI never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. Votes: 3
Jared HarrisIf you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it. Votes: 3
Sukant RatnakarTo be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. Votes: 3
John TillotsonIf you can win an argument by stretching your lips with a smile, why open your mouth and lose it. Votes: 3
Sukant Ratnakarthere is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it . Votes: 3
Dale CarnegieA novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. Votes: 2
Joyce CaryIn argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorAll information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work. Votes: 0
Hiroyuki NishimuraAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassThat's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. Votes: 0
Christopher BuckleyMost people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument. Votes: 0
Lois McMaster BujoldYou have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams Votes: 0
David McCulloughOur kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe. Votes: 0
Gordon B. HinckleyWe argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. Votes: 0
Charles SiebertMy father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Votes: 0
Desmond Tututhe heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal. Votes: 0
Susan FaludiI just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. Votes: 0
Iain BanksIn argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. Votes: 0
Roger ScrutonSimiles prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. Votes: 0
Robert SouthIt's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument! Votes: 0
Leonid AndreyevA good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. Votes: 0
J. Michael StraczynskiThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillThe underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force. Votes: 0
Mervyn KingFor good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. Votes: 0
Margaret HeffernanAn argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasA good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Votes: 0
Thomas HardyMy candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President. Votes: 0
John HodgmanWhat is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth Votes: 0
Mary Jo BangIf you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillSurely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Votes: 0
AristophanesThe strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian. Votes: 0
Ellen G. WhiteI read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyThe power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. Votes: 0
William MatthewsIn argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaThat something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it. Votes: 0
Paul BloomA witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument. Votes: 0
Chauncey DepewEmpty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. Votes: 0
EpicurusAn argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship. Votes: 0
Hugh PratherLet us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science. Votes: 0
Allen TateArgument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that. Votes: 0
Doris LessingThe great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's. Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughFaith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsI like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. Votes: 0
Tom StoppardBecause of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election. Votes: 0
James TarantoThe laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. Votes: 0
George SorosNothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonForget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread. Votes: 0
Damien FaheyChildren key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself. Votes: 0
Po BronsonI never lose in any argument, because I always make sure that my opponent wins. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaMore words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument. Votes: 0
Will RogersMy argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there. Votes: 0
Andrew MitchellHe draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneYou can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument. Votes: 0
Alberto FujimoriA little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. Votes: 0
William Stanley JevonsThere are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side. Votes: 0
Mordecai RichlerThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. Votes: 0
Carl SaganThe argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. Votes: 0
Emmeline PankhurstYou have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. Votes: 0
George EliotShrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Votes: 0
AristophanesOur willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility. Votes: 0
Gerry SpenceThis self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics. Votes: 0
John MearsheimerThe argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyThe argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist. Votes: 0
Richard Dawkinsthe central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness. Votes: 0
Susan FaludiIt is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Votes: 0
Francis BeaumontMen are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacMy argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be. Votes: 0
Anita RoddickThere is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one. Votes: 0
E. W. HoweThe human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is. Votes: 0
Ornette ColemanI'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldI think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality. Votes: 0
Yevgeny PrimakovBe able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantThe irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law. Votes: 0
Edward CokeThey say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonArgument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. Votes: 0
J. Sidlow BaxterMost couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times. Votes: 0
Gay HendricksRational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. Votes: 0
Alister E. McGrathStrive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. Votes: 0
George WashingtonThe trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. Votes: 0
Irving KaufmanGive me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillBetter than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. Votes: 0
Wendell BerryThe common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenIt is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit Votes: 0
AristotleThere should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature. Votes: 0
Auguste RodinOf course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Votes: 0
Thomas HardyFaith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonIt's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made. Votes: 0
Lloyd CutlerThe peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. Votes: 0
John Stuart MillI'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists Votes: 0
Tony AbbottI'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. Votes: 0
Tony AbbottThe biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. Votes: 0
Charles E. McKenzieIf one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? Votes: 0
Sam HarrisI think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control. Votes: 0
Chuck ToddMost people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it. Votes: 0
Sam ShoemakerThe best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. Votes: 0
William JamesWhen a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. Votes: 0
C. S. ForesterIt is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past. Votes: 0
William H. HastieThe important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. Votes: 0
Albert CamusOne could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. Votes: 0
David F. HoustonWhen you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy? Votes: 0
Wayne DyerNever argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument. Votes: 0
Richard WhatelyThere are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensIf love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiNever argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. Votes: 0
Richard WhatelyAn die dumme Stirne gehört als Argument von Rechts wegen die geballte Faust.
Nietzsche, Friedrich WilhelmIn der Politik ist ein Argument nur so lange gut, bis man weiß, vom wem es ist.
Wittgenstein, LudwigI love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. Votes: 1 Margaret Thatcher
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. Votes: 1 Jonathan Mayhew
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up. Votes: 1 Tony Parsons
I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up? Votes: 1 Susan Orlean
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things. Votes: 1 Jermain Defoe
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument. Votes: 2 John Berger
You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody. Votes: 1 Penn Jillette
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. Votes: 1 Lord Hailsham
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument. Votes: 3 Edward Robert Harrison
What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles. Votes: 3 Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. Votes: 1 Rafael Nadal
I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up? Votes: 1 Susan Orlean
Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along. Votes: 1 Donna Edwards
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. Votes: 4 Miguel de Unamuno
I never remember my parents having an argument. Votes: 4 Brunello Cucinelli
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future! Votes: 4 Sylvia Plath
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. Votes: 3 Margaret Thatcher