Arguing - Arguments Quotes

The best thing for an argument is not words and ideas, but to stop arguing.

In a heated argument we lose sight of the truth.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

Argument seldom convinces anyone against his inclination.

First settle what the case is, before you argue it.

When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure to just one ally, that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heat is the only true object of the spirit.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Your last point is perfectly new, and it is so startling that I do not apprehend it will ever become old.

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion, but rather to know it.