Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Argument is meant to reveal the truth not to create it.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Nothing does reason more right than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument a bank has just been robbed.
At a time like this scorching irony not convincing argument is needed.
I dropped out of high school when I was 16 after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them and I say to myself There's one more argument for birth control.
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
It's difficult to love someone you don't respect which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
Go beyond science into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes but the idea is that at the end of the day my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments not on my gender.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments however radical in intent or consequence are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
In argument truth always prevails finally in politics falsehood always.
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable to point at frauds to take sides start arguments shape the world and stop it going to sleep.
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.