Argument Quotes - Page 6

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

  Nathanael Emmons

  Two, Three, Facts

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• It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Intellectual, Intelligence

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.8, Mondial

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• There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Baby, Teacher, College

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• Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

  Sarada Devi

  Men, People, Arguing

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

  Mordecai Richler

  Guy, Three, Sides

  Mordecai Richler (1955). “Son of a smaller hero: a novel”

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• Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

  Ben Jonson

  Sound, Bears

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson”, p.286

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• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Order, Personality, Understanding

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• ..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

  David Levithan

  Real, Thinking, Trying

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.168, Egmont UK

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• Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Flames, Perfection

  "The Glass Bead Game".

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• The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.

  John Bolton

  Mass Destruction, Iran, Cynical

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• An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society. We take invisible ideas and make them tangible. That's our job.

  Neville Brody

  Jobs, Responsibility, Ideas

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• We fight every night, now that's not kosher
  I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer
  And wake up to be greeted by an argument again
  You act like you're ten
  So immature, I try to concentrate on a cure
  And keep lookin' at the front door.

  Extra P

  Rap, Fighting, Night

  "Song: 'Looking at the Front Door'". 1991.

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• It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

  Ben H. Winters

  Powerful, Heart, Natural

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• Most of this film, however, is about interpretation - are these people terrorists or freedom fighters? Are they good or bad? Is cutting timber good or bad? And I don't feel like the answers to those questions are simple, so we don't try to answer them for the audience. I wanted to elicit the strongest - and most heartfelt - arguments from the characters in the film and let those arguments bang up against the strongest arguments of their opponents.

  Marshall Curry

  Character, Cutting, Simple

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• Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

  Wilfred Funk

  Vocabulary, Hands, Has Beens

  Wilfred Funk (1974). “Words of Power”

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• There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

  Michael McCaul

  Stars, Sacrifice, Reality

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• The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

  William Jennings Bryan

  People, Political, Looks

  William Jennings Bryan (1967). “William Jennings Bryan: Selections”, Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill [1967]

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• I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity.

  Giles Smith

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent.

  Ross McKitrick

  Lying, Collaboration, Layers

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• London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.

  Nick Cohen

  Real, Land, Ideas

  "At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world's ugliest and most expensive hydrocarbon, can never be a reasonable substitute for light oil due to its extreme capital, energy, and carbon intensity. Bitumen looks, smells, and behaves like asphalt; running an economy on it is akin to digging up our existing road infrastructure, melting it down, and enriching the goop with hydrogen until it becomes a sulfur-rich but marketable oil.

  Andrew Nikiforuk

  Running, Oil, Smell

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• Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

  Emil Ruder

  Writing, Design, Information

  Emil Ruder (2001). “Typographie”, Arthur Niggli

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• The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

  Carl Sagan

  Honesty, Ideas, Democracy

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• I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.

  Yevgeny Primakov

  Reality, Thinking, Years

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• If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Giving, Abuse, Logic

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3823, Library of Alexandria

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