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«Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand»
Author: Cardinal de Retz
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Arguments
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arguments, more than, stupid, swaying, sways, understand
«There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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Arguments,
Information,
Principles
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Against the man, arguments, bar, barred, barring, contempt, everlasting, fail, information, investigation, investigations, principle, prior, proof
«Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.»
«Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.»
«Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.»
Author: Judith S. Marin
| About:
Arguments,
Children,
Education,
Parents
| Keywords:
arguments, foreign language, foreign languages, inducement, inducements, respectful, surprised, tones
«Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers»
«Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arguments, convinced, efforts, seriousness, sincerity
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Humor
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«Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about»
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
(Comedian)
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Arguments
| Keywords:
arguments, impressive, opponent, somewhat
«The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
advocate, advocated, advocating, arguments, convince, opponents, sympathized, sympathizes, sympathizing, The Advocate, The First Duty, understands
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