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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
Andre Maurois
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Larry Adler
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Matthew Prior
Debate is the death of conversation.
Emil Ludwig
I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert Humphrey
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Christopher Lasch
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin
If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with
Ayn Rand, To the Readers of The
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
Edward Koch
Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Benjamin Franklin
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide
