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ARGUMENt quotes
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it.— But argument is like an arrow from a cross bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.
If I were to deliver up my whole self to the arbitrament of special pleaders, today I might be argued into an atheist, and tomorrow into a pickpocket.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathises with their just feelings.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit than the profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy management.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your greatcoat.
When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil.—Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
Nothing is more certain than that much of the force as well as grace of arguments, as well as of instructions, depends on their conciseness.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Clear statement is argument.
There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Weak arguments are often thrust bfore my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
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