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Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.
FTFrank Tyger
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
DMDudley Malone1882–1950
Exaggeration follows desperation.
CBChris Bowyer
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936).
Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
The absent are easily refuted.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
There is only one rule for being a good talker⁠—learn to listen.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings1818–1885
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
The argument is at an end.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
E. W. Howe1853–1937
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, Phaedo