Argument Quotes

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgement, or improve the heart,

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to Men.

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.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about; but evermore Came out by the same Door as I went.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquish'd; he could argue still.

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discrimination, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.