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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it

George Bernard Shaw

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute

Josh Billings

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about

Rodney Dangerfield

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children

Judith S. Marin

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments

Marie Dressler

Arguments with furniture are rarely productive

Kehlog Albran

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them

Tryon Edwards

We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own

Joseph Joubert

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments

Isaac Asimov

The common dogma is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity

G Gaia

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost

William Lloyd Garrison

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Michel Leiris

One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

Gay Hendricks

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

Jack Lynch

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Lord Byron

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions

Booth Tarkington

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Elbert Hubbard

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Plato

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle

Plato

Use soft words and hard arguments

unknown

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation

Herbert Spencer

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