Argument Quotes

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Win through your actions, never through argument.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

There are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Sometimes your advice prevails; sometimes it doesn’t prevail. It’s not a matter of winning or losing.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.