Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
Roger Bacon

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Edward de Bono

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
Johann Most

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.
William Henry Moody

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
Marilyn vos Savant

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

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

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Charles Simmons

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
William Wycherley

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.
Liam Neeson

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
Marilyn vos Savant

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
Robert Half

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
E. P. Thompson

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen

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

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