Arguments Quotes

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

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

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument

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

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game
Earl Weaver

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

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it
Leo Durocher

Never argue; repeat your assertion
Robert Owen

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

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

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

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum

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

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

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

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement
George Burton Adams







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