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...

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?

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

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.

A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one’s eyes to own misunderstandings.

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one’s temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who...

I think possibly the international team looks stronger than the U.S. team, but then I use the argument that we’re playing on American soil … I don’t know whether that holds any water.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.2) An omniscient, wholly good being would...

It’s a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Excluding certain ideas and thoughts, calling them hate speech, is an important piece in the progressive movement’s puzzle. If you can’t win an argument logically, demonize your opponent, make him out to be a bad...

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek....

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it...

I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

Men argue, nature acts.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

It’s not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it’s intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.

The big, burly oaf offended my girl, so without hesitation I rushed to her defense. I did, however, make a few stops along the way, and by the time I got home and back, the...

If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they’re not going to like you. They don’t want...

I think the conference is as strong, if not stronger, than last year. Could an argument [for five NCAA teams] be made today? I think so.

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but...

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own...

I’m sure there’ll be some type of argument from somebody, but I can’t think of a team that needed a win more than ours did anywhere in the country.

We’ve heard the argument here now that the FCC is the one that ought to redefine the definition of indecency. Perhaps that is true. I find it objectionable that those who have been granted the...

They weren’t making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go...

Chad seemed both venomous and insecure, a flammable combination.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

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.