Robert Half Quotes

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

Argument is conclusive … but … it does not remove doubt.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

Use your logick, and then your rhetorick. Rhetorick without logick, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet I confess more are taken with rhetorick than logick, because they are catched with a free expression, when they understand not reason. Logick must be natural, or it is worth nothing at all: Your rhetorick figures may be learned.

I was on the debate team.

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?