#argument

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side. ↗

— Jascha Heifetz

#argument #find #matter #other #people

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. ↗

— William Henry Moody

#eloquence #power #rare

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#arguments #coming-home #daughters #family #fights

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#arguments #snappiness #anger

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#argument #debate #kindness #reason #anger

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#art #art

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. ↗

— Karl Popper

#argument #attitude #does #effect #man

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. ↗

— Darryl F. Zanuck

#business #jobs #teamwork #work #business

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#beyond #both #go #into #inwardly

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses." "Excuses, eh?" Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted. "Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you're supposed to argue about, come later. They're the least important part of the belief. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He looked at Erens. "You've attacked the wrong thing. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#belief #erens #excuses #instinct #justifications