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

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Thomas Berger

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson

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

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
Vladimir Putin

Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it.
Charles R. Anderson

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.
Charles Vest

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

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Hosea Ballou

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
Charles Simmons

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Aristophanes

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Cullen Hightower

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas Paine

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
Studs Terkel

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert