Quotes about Argument

If you're explaining, you're losing.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards.

How childish is the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be worthy."

He went on to praise the company they had just left, declaring that he knew no better way for a young man to form his mind than by frequenting the society of men of conflicting views and equal capacity. "Nothing," said he, "is more injurious to the growth of character than to be secluded from argument and opposition; as nothing is healthier than to be obliged to find good reasons for one's beliefs on pain of surrendering them.

Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.