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

Lord Byron

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Samuel Johnson

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

Nathaniel Emmons

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Che Guevara

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

Many argue; not many converse.

Alcott, Louisa May

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions

Booth Tarkington

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup

Wendell Berry

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Plato

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle

Plato

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not

Thomas Paine

Use soft words and hard arguments

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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

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

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

Miguel de Unamuno

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face

Sydney J. Harris

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

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

John Locke

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