Counterargument Quotes

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

Anti-theism presupposes Theism

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

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

I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder. Life would be easier if he wasn’t so damned good-looking. “Why, my mother drank wine every day, and I turned out just fine.” “I think you’re proving my point for me,” I said dryly

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

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.'

To that there is an answer.

The absent are easily refuted.

That's one thing I learned in my philosophy training - if you're writing a paper on Aristotle, you have to first show that you understand him. Then you can make your counterargument.

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.

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

As a Jew, I believe that every argument has a counterargument.

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.

I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.