The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Arguing - Arguments Quotes
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit than the profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy management.
That’s a definition, not a theorem. That means you don’t argue with it; you just write it down and memorize it.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
The elaborate argument… does not need an elaborate answer.
Debate is the death of conversation.
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.
