#argument

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. ↗

— Robert Half

#convincing #win #yourself

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. ↗

— Lord Halifax

#argument #good #seldom #without

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #challenges #emotional #explain #film

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. ↗

— David F. Houston

#any #argument #could #drive #fact

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

#been #bill #comfortable #conservative #democratic

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. ↗

— David Hume

#argument #friends #springs #truth

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#argument #because #bogus #claim #completely

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#argument #assumptions #euclid #examine #me

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#argument #berries #better #cup #dawn