Argument Quotes
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"Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon"
"I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet completely agreeing with me. That’s how I knew you loved me."
"We got into an argument over the color of love. I said it was pink, and he said it was red. So you see, I had no other choice but to stab him."
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
"You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."
"I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win."
"I want to be strapped to a table, while a family of chickens argues over who gets to eat my legs."
"Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word."
"They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience."
"It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly."
"Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives."
"In a battle of believability, the winner is the one with the best body language, not the clearest logic."
"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."
"There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies."
"...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet."
"The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error."
"The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows."
"Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons."
"Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back"
"If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions."
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
"When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages."
"You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue."
"Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument."
"A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest."
"Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice."
"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"
"The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent."
"We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates."
"Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them."
"Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair."
"Bang! The end of his little finger, now, and three more pieces of the rest. His middle finger was down to the knuckle, almost. Severard stared, his eyes with with horror, his breath coming short, fast gasps. Shock, amazement, stunned terror. Glokta leaned down to his ear. 'I hope you weren't planning to take up the violin, Severard. You'll be lucky if you can play a fucking gong by the time we're done here."
"They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned."
"Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable."
"Many can argue not many converse."
"Wise men argue causes and fools decide them."
"When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."
"You don’t know anything about me.”“No, I know not everything about you. But I sense enough to know you have mistaken obsession with drive, guilt with injustice. I know you want to escape what you are, cabbage fairy,” he said, reaching for his hood and gloves and tucking them into the waistband of his trousers. “Your desires are no different from my own, I simply have the courage to face them."
"Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues!’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love."
"Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument."
"The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker."
"The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit."
"Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out."
"The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term."
"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think."
"The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - like the White House press office - who can make their arguments most loudly, most frequently, most obstinately, and with the best backdrop."
Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
"No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman."
"It's futile to point the finger of condemnation and say, "Men... this" or "Women... that". Truth is, we are all guilty and innocent of many of life's trials."
"It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen."
"We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of belief, faith and religion.But we must not hate each other. We are one human family."
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