Quotes of: Argument Keyword

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Mason Cooley

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

Ray Stannard Baker

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

Richard Carlson

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

Rose Kennedy

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Stefan Molyneux

Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. "Blood is thicker than anger.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Salman Rushdie

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Tom Stoppard

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Milan Kundera

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

Rafael Nadal

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Robert South

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Sholom Aleichem

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Marilyn vos Savant

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

The Knights

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

Roger Bacon

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Juan Cole

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

Andrew Mitchell

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Howard Nemerov

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Hilary Mantel

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Judith Martin