There’s more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

It’s easier to win an argument over a dinner you’re paying for.

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least...

Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!

Is it me you’re describing, or yourself?

Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was he before the creation? If...

Don’t start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don’t. They’ll make you look like chopped liver.

When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

She told me she might not be there when I get back, and I got so angry I said something stupid. I told her I might not be there when I get back either.

You could argue I’m a loser, but I’d win that debate thus proving you wrong by proving you wrong.

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that — using logic as a weapon.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one’s own.

Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the lines which are drawn from the center of a circle to its circumference are unequal, he surely...

PRESIDENT BARTLETT: “See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.

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...

1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.4. But virtue...

It wasn’t even a fight, really. We didn’t shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

If one has to say, in an argument, “I am intelligent! I do know things!” then one might as well stop arguing.

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

I’ve spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely, that it is a meaningless place devoid of deity.However I’m unwilling...

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

Prayer is the safest method of replying to a word of hatred.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange, Laplace, and Gauss, who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. Lagrange is perfect both in form and matter, he is...

The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to left or to the right on some hypothetical spectrum, and every...

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid ‘us vs. them.

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

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.

We don’t want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more and more government power is somehow on the side of the right, and those who are...

I had a scimitar at my throat. I’d like to see you try signaling under those conditions.”-Janco and Ari bickering

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons – you really can choose to stop.

An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose.

I tend to believe, when you’re in a relationship, if you don’t fight, it’s not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don’t believe it.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Silence is an arguement hard to refute

Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty...

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...

Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas – the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code – but because...

I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father’s hand. “What’s this?” he asked, raising a brow. “You’ll need...

A fight like this was stunning, revealing not just how much he was on the lookout for enemies, but how she too was unable to abandon argument which escalated into rage. Neither of them would...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical...

The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

They’re going to try to make an argument that simply cutting wages, slashing benefits, etc., is not the only way to go. Whether the bankruptcy judge buys that remains an open question.

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only...