Quotes by Argument I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones. Penn Dayton Badgley argumentbiggerhonesty My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' Pete Seeger argumentdadused I told Kate I didn't love her in an argument. But I do! Those heated moments are the worst, because that's when you can do the most damage. And they're bad, because you always hit them in the spot where you know it hurts. Peter Andre argumentdamagehurt Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind. Peter Atkins argumentlazymind The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say." Peter Kreeft argumentspeakworld I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose. Peter Medawar proposeargumentcriticize What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. Peter Singer argumentfaithbelieve The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two mode and thus could provide an explanation of gravity, if one ever managed to find an underlying theory for which perturbative string theory is the perturbative expansion. Peter Woit argumentexplanationworld Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief Petrarch argumentgrief To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting. Philip Guston begin-againargumentpainting Scholarship is polite argument. Philip Rieff argumentscholarshipknowledge Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal. Phillips Brooks argumentscriptureconviction Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. Phyllis Diller argumentcomedythree History is an argument without end. Pieter Geyl argumentendshistory Arguments derived from probabilities are idle. Plato idleprobabilityargument Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others. Plutarch argumentforcethousand Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours. Plutarch argumentlampswitness Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp. Plutarch scoffingargumentlamps I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us. Plato argumentwalksmean In excess altercation, truth is lost. Publilius Syrus excessargumenttruth-is«1516171819202122232425»
