Argument Quotes

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

To write is to reveal oneself.
When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.
I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it - may be not about the characters, nor about the piece, but at least about the idea.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. The
two long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on to
commit suicide, and others were argumentative.

It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.

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.

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

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.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon

Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be
Others will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back

I'M SCOTTISH!

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

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.