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.
Arguing - Arguments Quotes
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.
Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
Many can argue; not many converse.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
