Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
The argument is at an end.
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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.
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
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