Quotes by Argument I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. Buddy Hackett argumentdancingpeople By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? C. S. Lewis argumentpatientarguing The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism. Calvin Trillin argumentcolonialismsandwiches My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive. Camille Paglia argumentfitpushing The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. Carl Sagan argumentscienceideas One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' Carl Sagan primatesargumentauthority One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.) Carl Sagan hierarchydominanceargument Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. Cass Sunstein argumentsidespeople If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument. Cass Sunstein argumentsucceedyears I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism. Cate Marvin poeticargumentstrikes Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows. Charles Bukowski laundryargumentdirty Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. Charles Caleb Colton argumentwishmen It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. Charles Caleb Colton maximsargumentwise Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. Charles Caleb Colton argumentsilenceweak A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin Charles Darwin argumentsidesfacts It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side. Charles Dudley Warner argumentdifficultsides There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events. Charles Kennedy argumenteventssatisfaction On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do. Charles M. Vest tuitionargumenthands Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them. Charles Schumer argumentusepeople We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. Charles Siebert argumentarguingcivilization«1234567891011»
