"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."

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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

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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."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

Argument, Conservative, Economy, Weather

"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

"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

Wisdom

"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."

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"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."

Time

"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies."

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"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."

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"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."

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"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

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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."

"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."

"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

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"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."

"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."

"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies."

"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."

"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."

"Evil report carries further than any applause."

"Begin with another's to end with your own."