"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Argument, Injury, Silence

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

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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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

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

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Argument, Word, Meaning, Interpretation

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Argument, Conviction, Sense, Will

"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

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

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

Argument, Conservative, Economy, Weather

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

Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher

Argument, Right, Wrong

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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."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

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"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

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"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."

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"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."

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"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."

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"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

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

"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."

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

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

"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."

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

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

"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."

Explore more quotes by Francis Beaumont

"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees."

"Kiss till the cow comes home."

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."

"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."

"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."

"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."

"But what is past my help is past my care."