Argument Quotes - page 2

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. (Karl Popper)

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Jacques Pepin

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt the Younger

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

J. B. S. Haldane

Of ghosts All argument is against it but all belief is for it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Frederick Douglass

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

John Searle

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. (David Hume)

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.

Carl Sagan

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbors creed has lent. All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

Carroll Quigley

If you can not answer a man's argument, all it not lost you can still call him vile names.

Elbert Hubbard

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Thatcher

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. (Franz Kafka)

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Honoré de Balzac

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.

Walter Russell Mead

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Elihu Root

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.

Carl Hiaasen

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