Argument Quotes - Page 9

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

God's Word is its own best argument.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

History is an argument without end.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.