Argument Quotes

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

Richard Henry Pratt

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 has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.

Barry Unsworth

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

Giordano Bruno

The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument.

Steve Maraboli

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

Thomas Carlyle

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Christopher Hitchens

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Leo Tolstoy

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

C.S. Lewis

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

Voltaire

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 side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

George Eliot

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

Leo Tolstoy