Argument Quotes - Page 5

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.