Arguments Quotes

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

Michel Leiris

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

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

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It will do no good to argue if you're in the wrong, & if you're right--you don't need to.

Unknown

Sometimes when you're arguing with a fool, he's doing the same thing.

Unknown

If you must argue, the best way to win is to start by being right.

Unknown

When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence.

Unknown

Arguing about religion is much easier than practicing it.

Unknown

It is a rare thing to win an argument & the other fellow's respect at the same time.

Unknown

The only people who really listen to an argument are the neighbours.

Unknown

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

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