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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about

Miguel de Unamuno

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

unknown

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

John Locke

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

Immanuel Kant

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up

Donald Rumsfeld

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote

James Fergusson

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

Thomas Henry Huxley

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers

William Penn

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Oscar Wilde

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

Rose F. Kennedy

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable

Joseph Addison

Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince

Joan of Arc

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Daniel Dennett

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Unknown

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

Samuel Butler

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Milan Kundera

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully

Robert Benchley

It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration, and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the general government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the 4th resolution

James Madison

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Charles Caleb Colton

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