Quotes on Arguments

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Author: Dan Abrams

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

Author: Robert Benchley

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

Author: Annie Besant

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

Author: Vinoba Bhave

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Author: Josh Billings

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Author: Louis Brandeis

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Author: Samuel Butler

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

Author: Ann Coulter

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.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Author: John Deacon

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

Author: John Deacon

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

Author: Thomas Dekker

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

Author: Marie Dressler

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

Author: Martin Feldstein

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Author: Stanley Fish

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

Author: William Gilbert

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Author: Frederick Great

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Author: Sidney Hook

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

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

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

Author: Samuel Johnson

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

Author: Rose Kennedy

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

Author: Bjorn Lomborg

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.

Author: Jack Lynch

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

Author: John McCarthy

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Author: George Orwell

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

Author: Herbert Prochnow

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Author: Cardinal Retz

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Author: James Robinson

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.

Author: Joseph Rotblat

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

Author: Marilyn Savant

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Author: Marilyn Savant

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

Author: John Schlesinger

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

Author: Michael Servetus

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

Author: George Shaw

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Author: Percy Shelley

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

Author: William Sherman

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

Author: Valentina Tereshkova

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Author: Tertullian

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

Author: Miguel Unamuno

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

Author: Oscar Wilde

There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.

Author: David Zucker