"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"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

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

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

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"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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."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

"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

Argument, Conservative, Party, Republican

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Argument, Wind

"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

Rowan D. Williams, British Archbishop

Argument, Media, Public, Talk

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right."

Lord Hailsham, British Politician

Argument, Being, Right

"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

Argument, Debate

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."

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"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

"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."

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

"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."

"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right."

"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."

Explore more quotes by Oscar Wilde

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"My Salome is a mystic the sister SalammbA - a Saint ThA©rA se who worships the moon."

"Something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope."

"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."

"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."

"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."

"Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself."

"It's beauty that captures your attention, personality that captures your heart.."