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Tag Name "Arguments" (410)

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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
Michael Servetus
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The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always work, and beliefs that work are by no means always true.
John Warwick Montgomery
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Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.
Georges Rouault
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The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.
Joseph Parker
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I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.
Kevin Hearne
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I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party.
Adolf Hitler
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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
William Barclay
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Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
Julian Assange
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In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
Nathanael Emmons
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.
Jay Rockefeller
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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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Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments smelled of the lamp, replied, Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.
Plutarch
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Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who believe that every word in the Bible must be literally true, whatever such a claim might mean.
Stephen Jay Gould
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I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.
Ray Dalio
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
George Santayana
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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
Charlie Munger
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There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
Charles Kennedy
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Robert Benchley
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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
John Wilkins
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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.
Keith Devlin
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