Argument Quotes

We must reinforce argument with results.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it.

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

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

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

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.