Quotes about Argument
When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other. - "The Old Lady and the Bear"
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains.
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other. - "The Old Lady and the Bear\
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains.
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.