Quotes with arguments

  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
  • I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
  • A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
  • Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
  • We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
  • Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
  • A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Tertullian Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
    Tertullian
    Roman Christian author from Carthage (160 - 230)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bhagat Singh 'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Carl Sagan A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Milton Friedman A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Nathanael Emmons Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Samuel Butler Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oscar Wilde Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Booth Tarkington Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Joseph Addison Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Barbara Mandrell By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Frederick the Great Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Blaise Pascal Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Walt Whitman How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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