C. S. Lewis Quotes

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

I am used to controversies.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to.

If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good job of highlighting what's wrong with their argument or their position.

It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

One can always debate questions back and forth.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.

Disagreement is something normal.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them.

There is no history without polemic ... without originating in antagonism to something which exists and which it wants to combat and substitute

It is in this area Winston, that there is likely to be some disagreement between you and me.

If you are a wise man, sitting in the council of your lord, direct your thought toward that which is wise. Be silent rather than scatter your words. When you speak, know that which can be brought against you. To speak in the council is an art, and speech is criticized more than any other labor; it is contradiction which puts it to the proof

I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to me

Argument is not always truth.