Arguing Quotes - Page 5

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Many can argue - not many converse.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.