Argument Quotes - Page 18

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument by analogy. These are the four components in the Shari'a. An orthodox Sunni would not accept that the Shari'a was simply comprised of the Qur'an itself and actually there are people who say that it's heretical to believe that. They have to say that because if they don't say that then they would have to accept that, for example, stoning is not a punishment which appears in the Qur'an - it doesn't.

The first rules about Islamic law weren't even written down for a century and a half after the Prophet's death, and it was another five centuries, half a millennium, before they assumed anything like a definitive form. So there have always been huge arguments over what Islamic law actually requires. There are four main schools of law in Sunni thought and there's a separate school of law in Shia thought, so these arguments do take place.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for." I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The arguments that have been given against supervaluationism usually aim to show that it is just incoherent. But it's not. It may be false, as a general theory of vagueness, but it's a coherent and, I think, even correct way to think about some vagueness.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

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

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

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

Scholarship is polite argument.