Quotes about Arguing

Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Achievement - Arguing - Conflict - Emptiness - Improvement - Inspiration - Opposition - Sometimes - Victory

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Sri Chinmoy

Philosopher, Author

God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.

Arguing - Fools - Giants - Mindset - Oneself

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.

Arguing - People

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

Abuse - Arguing - Children - Crime - Facts - People - Satan

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Arguing - Habit - Praying - Reason - Strength

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Alain de Botton

Philosopher, Author

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Ambition - Arguing - End - Enough - Facts - Giving - Journey - Wants

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Al-Ghazali

Philosopher, Theologian, Jurist, Mystic

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

Arguing - Avoidance - Conflict - Disagreement - End - Inspiration - Islam - Knowledge - Muslims - Philosophy - Scholar - Wisdom

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

Accounting - Arguing - Bible - Existence - Kindness - Literature - Professor - Studying

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Educator, Writer, Philosopher, Reformer

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

Arguing - Conversation

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Rajneesh

Guru

Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And only once is he mentioned: when he was twelve years of age and he started arguing with the priests in the temple - that's all. Then there is a gap of eighteen years... nothing is mentioned.

Age - Arguing - Children - Priest - Records

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Alexander Hamilton

Economist, Lawyer, Military Commander, Founding Father of the United States

The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy, will at all times be ready, with perfect good humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions of decrees of the general authority." "This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for," Publius argues, "It has its origin in the love of power.

Affairs - Arguing - Authority - Constitution - Difficulty - Human - Perfection - Teaching - Tendency

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Alain de Botton

Philosopher, Author

In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.

Arguing - Art - Comfort - Help - Inspiration - Redemption - Therapy

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

Afternoon - Arguing - Laziness - Lie - Reading - Science

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Neale Donald Walsch

Writer, Author, Author

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.

Allowance - Arguing - Quiet - Wishing

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Alexander Pushkin

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

Arguing - Flattery - Fools - Indifference - Insult

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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

Arguing - Decision - Enough - Maturing

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Rajneesh

Guru

You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.

Aggression - Arguing - Love

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

Arguing - Drinking - People - Philosophy - Progression - Thinking

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

Arguing - End - Objection - Quarrel - Thinking

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