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Tag Name "Arguments" (409)

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Arguments are too much like disputes.
Jane Austen
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Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
Gay Hendricks
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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 like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butler
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington
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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
Barbara Tuchman
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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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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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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
Donald Rumsfeld
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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 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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We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Harvey Robinson
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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell
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After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.
Joseph Brodsky
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
George Santayana
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
George Santayana
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
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Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to prove that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.
Jerry Pournelle
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Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
George Will
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When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
Euripides
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