The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
Andr?© Maurois
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 aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
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
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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
Since when was an emotional argument won by logic
Robert A. Heinlein
There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one
Cutler Webster
It is impossible to win an argument with an ignorant man
Unknown
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job
Margaret Thatcher
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation
Dale Carnegie
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically
Sidney Blumenthal