Argument Quotes - Page 22

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?

Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

I have always thought that the role of the film-maker is to present the argument persuasively, emotionally and coherently and then it is over to the viewer, they are either convinced or not convinced, moved or not moved and they decide whether they will take action or not.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

I actually have to consciously stay away from CNN and MSNBC because it will rot my brain and start having me agree with them as they have an argument between the right and the far right while making it seem they are righteous torch-bearers for democracy. Corporate media is insidiously numbing!

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.