Argument Quotes - Page 14

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

For me, even in the most subtle and introspective story, it's all about tension: this is the thread that ties a reader to story, something in the rhythm and in the argument that hypnotizes and pushes us to read with great attention. As a reader, I love the storytellers who play with this, and as a writer it is something I always look for.

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

Without argument the species would parish.