argument motivational sayings and quotations
Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument.
~motivational quotes about War of James Frederick Green
I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.
~famous saying on Anger by Author Unknown
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
~motivation quotations on Parties by George Gordon Byron
There are no atheists in foxholes isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.
~motivational argument sayings by James Morrow
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
~motivational sayings about argument by André Maurois
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
~inspirational saying on Government by Winston Churchill
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.
~motivational quotes about Baseball of Robert Benchley
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty… is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
~famous saying on Vegetarianism by Rabindranath Tagore
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
~motivation quotations on Fear by Katharine Butler Hathaway
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
~motivational argument sayings by Salman Rushdie
There are no atheists in foxholes isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.
~motivational sayings about argument by James Morrow
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
~inspirational saying on Ignorance by William G. McAdoo
In science it often happens that scientists say, You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken, and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
~motivational quotes about Science of Carl Sagan, 1987
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
~famous saying on Laughter by Agnes Repplier
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
~motivation quotations on Nature by Wendell Berry