Argument Quotes

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

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.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

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.

When God says something, the argument is over.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

It is not who is right,
but what is right,
that is of importance.

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.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Love is a very compelling argument.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

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.

Win through your actions, never through argument.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

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?

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

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.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

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.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

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.