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Tag Name "Argument" (1237)

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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
Barbara Tuchman
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
Alain de Botton
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butler
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Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.
Orville Dewey
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Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
Gay Hendricks
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein
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Argument need not be heated it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
J. Sidlow Baxter
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch
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Arguments are too much like disputes.
Jane Austen
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
Roger Bacon
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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.
Roger Bacon
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Argument weak speak loudly!
Theodore Roosevelt
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
Jonathan Swift
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Joseph Addison
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
Oscar Wilde
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Argument is not always truth.
Lajos Kossuth
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
Gertrude Stein
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Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities at most, there are experts.
Carl Sagan
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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
Donald Rumsfeld
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson
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