Quotes of: Argument Keyword

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

Tony Abbott

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

John Webster

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

Kim Stanley Robinson

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Lord Acton

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

Louis D. Brandeis

Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.

Linda Perlstein

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Max von Laue

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

Samuel Butler

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Leon Kass

I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.

Glenn Hubbard

A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

Julia Bacha

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Albert Camus

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

Samuel Johnson

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

David Pratt

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.

James Hudson Taylor

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

John Wilkins

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock