1.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Discernment
2.
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
Hannah Arendt
Politically, the flaw of the reasoning has perennially been that those who select the lesser of two wrongs quickly forget they have still chosen an iniquitous option.
3.
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.
William Wilberforce
4.
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
Milton Friedman
6.
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
Alister E. McGrath
7.
When God says something, the argument is over.
R. C. Sproul
8.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass
10.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
Tertullian
11.
I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.
Jimmy Carter
12.
It is not who is right,
but what is right,
that is of importance.
Thomas Huxley
13.
Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.
Sam Shoemaker
14.
When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
15.
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
Carl Sagan
16.
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
Samuel Johnson
17.
An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.
Jon Niccum
18.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
Aristotle
20.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
21.
An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
Hugh Prather
22.
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
W. C. Fields
24.
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
Ben Goldacre
25.
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
Christopher Buckley
26.
Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments, not in human intelligence, but in God.
Theodore Austin-Sparks
27.
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?
Ray Combs
28.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Seneca the Younger
29.
Win through your actions, never through argument.
Robert Greene
30.
When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.
Ann Landers
31.
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
Richard Dawkins
32.
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
Hans Morgenthau
33.
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
Sandra Day O'Connor
34.
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
Roger Scruton
35.
Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.
Gerry Spence
36.
There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?
Thomas Sowell
37.
The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
Thomas Sowell
39.
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
Sean O'Casey
40.
Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
John Deacon
41.
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
Laurie R. King
42.
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
Amartya Sen
43.
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
44.
When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
Vinoba Bhave
45.
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.
Walter Cronkite
46.
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
Barbara Deming
47.
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
Brian Clough
48.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
49.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
John Locke
50.
I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you don't have to be factually accurate. You can kind of construct some awesome strawman arguments in your fictional world.
Owen Pallett