Laozi
Philosopher
"Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right."
Arguing quotes
Arguing
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all"."
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"It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry."
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"It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears."
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"That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong."
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"When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing."
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"If your faith won't fit in the door that opens, then I argue do not walk through that door."
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
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"Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation."
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"Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted."
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"In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief."
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"To argue with reality is to argue with God"
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"Men argue. Nature acts."
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"I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue."
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"It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything."
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"Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually."
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"Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast."
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"I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting."
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"Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven."
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"One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem."
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"Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest."
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"Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard."
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