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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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...