Argument Quotes - Page 13

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

You could start an argument in an empty house.

Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.