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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went.

Omar Khayyam

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Baltasar Gracian

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool

Charles Simmons

Assassination is not argument.

Emilio Castelar y Ripoli

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Douglas Adams

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Robert Benchley

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance

Robert Quillen

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap

Mitch Hedberg

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense

Joseph Conrad

There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one

Cutler Webster

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument

Unknown

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic

Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal

Marilyn Ferguson

Silence is argument carried out by other means

Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Edgar Watson Howe

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.

Omar Khayy?°m

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Andr?© Maurois

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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