(610 quotes found)
“Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument”
Richard Whately
“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
John Locke
“Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about”
Rodney Dangerfield
“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not”
Thomas Paine
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
Albert Camus
“Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
Milton Friedman
“I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.”
Mitch Hedberg
“No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.”
Monty Python
“Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form”
Immanuel Kant