Quotes with argument

  • The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation, as a feather and a guinea fall with equel velocity in a vacuum.
  • Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?
  • Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
  • The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
  • You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
  • To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
  • Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
  • He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
  • No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
  • The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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  • William E. Gladstone Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Janet Frame ''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • George Santayana Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Rae History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Victor Serge I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
    Victor Serge
     
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  • Daniel Webster Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aristophanes Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Joseph Joubert The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine The argument of the strongest is always the best.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation, as a feather and a guinea fall with equel velocity in a vacuum.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Angela Carter A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Rebecca West Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Jonathan Swift Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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