"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Argument, May, Worth

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

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

Argument, Arguments, Being, Fact, Party

"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

Anthony Holden, British Journalist

Argument, Blame, Old, Popular

"Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public."

David Herbert Donald, American Historian

Argument, Public, Result, Talk

"Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Argument, Arguments, Logic, Malice

"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."

Richard Attenborough, English Actor

Argument, Reason

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

Margaret Thatcher, English Leader

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"Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them."

Thomas Dekker, English Dramatist

Argument, Arguments, Children

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

Argument, Punishment

"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."

Susan Griffin, American Writer

Argument, Determinism, Sense

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"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."

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"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

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"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."

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"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

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

"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

"Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public."

"Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice."

"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them."

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."

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"All good Literature rests primarily on insight."

"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."

"The only cure for grief is action."

"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."

"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so."

"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."

"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."

"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."

"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."