"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."

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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

Argument, Arguments, Being, Fact, Party

"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Argument, Violence

"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Argument, Custom, Manners, Morals

"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Argument, Word, Meaning, Interpretation

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Argument, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Argument, Debate, Opinion, Time, Wisdom

"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."

John Tillotson, British Theologian

Argument, Mind, Reason

"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

John Hume, Irish Politician

Argument, Ireland, Right

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."

William Gilbert, British Composer

Argument, Arguments, Causes, Discovery, Investigation

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"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

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"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

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"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."

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"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

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"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

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"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."

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"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."

"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."

Explore more quotes by Gertrude Stein

"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."

"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."

"It is very easy to love alone."

"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."