Best Arguing Quotes

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, ’cause we have a need to make sense.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

I realized that it’s insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It’s blowing!

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

I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone’s anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.

The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that’s when they stop arguing.

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates’ debating skills have gone rusty. When you’ve been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently – let alone entertainingly – inevitably wanes.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

Don’t argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

I’m kind of interested in visual communication. For me it’s more about suggesting than arguing a point.

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

Come live with us, Diana. Don’t argue. Just say yes. Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, Would I have to be hearing you two going at it night and day?

A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I’m gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she’s in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.

Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.

The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development…. One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist–while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history — free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.

This is what analysts have calculated. It’s a number that’s out there and we’re not arguing with it.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

The idea of equality is misunderstood. I wouldn’t ever argue that everyone is the same, but that differences should not be hierarchical. Attitudes and expectations have been imposed on both men and women. For instance, men had very little to do with the raising of their children before the women’s movement. The women’s movement has freed men to become more active as fathers. We’re living in a period of transition, but change can be much slower than we want, with unintended consequences, and can also be happening without our seeing it.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It’s like arguing about earthquakes.

There is no question in my mind that Zionists, these Jewish radicals that they dominate Hollywood, nobody argues about the show you in the Los Angeles Times article by Joel Stein bragging about it.