Top Argument Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Argument quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Sandra Day O'Connor
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Image of Barry Lyga
You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
- Barry Lyga
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Image of Paula Poundstone
I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.
- Paula Poundstone
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Image of William Greenough Thayer Shedd
Clear statement is argument.
- William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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Image of William Matthews
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
- William Matthews
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Image of Emil Ludwig
Debate is the death of conversation.
- Emil Ludwig
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Image of Lajos Kossuth
Argument is not always truth.
- Lajos Kossuth
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Image of Sextus Empiricus
To every argument an equal argument is opposed.
- Sextus Empiricus
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Image of Robert South
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
- Robert South
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Image of Leston Havens
An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.
- Leston Havens
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Image of Cate Marvin
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.
- Cate Marvin
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Image of Paul Bloom
The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.
- Paul Bloom
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Image of Ama Ata Aidoo
Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
- Ama Ata Aidoo
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Image of Roger E. Olson
Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.
- Roger E. Olson
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Image of John B. S. Haldane
An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.
- John B. S. Haldane
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Image of George Tyrrell
The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.
- George Tyrrell
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Image of Alphonse de Lamartine
Argument should be polite as well as logical.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
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Image of Gerry Spence
Without argument the species would parish.
- Gerry Spence
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Image of Carl Sagan
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Sarah Vowell
My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.
- Sarah Vowell
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Image of George Orwell
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
- George Orwell
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Image of Woodrow Wilson
... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.
- Woodrow Wilson
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Image of Joseph Sobran
The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.
- Joseph Sobran
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Image of Richard Whately
He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
- Richard Whately
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Image of Thomas Paine
He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument
- Thomas Paine
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Image of Amy Poehler
However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'
- Amy Poehler
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Image of Plutarch
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
- Plutarch
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of John Rawls
Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.
- John Rawls
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Image of Ray Bradbury
Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.
- Ray Bradbury
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Image of Albert Schweitzer
I decided that I would make my life my argument.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Image of Graham Chapman
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.
- Graham Chapman
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Image of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Image of Peter Medawar
I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.
- Peter Medawar
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Image of Winston Churchill
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Dale Carnegie
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
- Dale Carnegie
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Image of Immanuel Wallerstein
This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.
- Immanuel Wallerstein
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Image of Plato
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
- Plato
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Image of Richard Dawkins
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
- Richard Dawkins
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Image of Sophocles
When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
- Sophocles
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Image of Benjamin Disraeli
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Image of Susan Faludi
the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
- Susan Faludi
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Image of William Feather
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
- William Feather
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Image of Michael Hudson
Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.
- Michael Hudson
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Image of Albert Einstein
If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Thomas Aquinas
Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Image of Al Gore
A majority of Trump's voters were in favor of staying in the Paris Agreement. And if you look at what's really happening in the economy, the economic argument actually is very strongly in favor of the Paris Agreement. There are now twice as many jobs in the solar industry as in the coal industry. Solar jobs are growing 17 times faster than other jobs in the U.S.
- Al Gore
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Image of Aristotle
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
- Aristotle
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