Argument Futility Quotes

Why argue about things you can't prove?

I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Most arguments are useless.

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.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

When you're arguing with a fool, you're the fool for even going back and forth.

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

Don't argue. We ain't doing that. What you going back and forth with somebody over anything for?

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

I would just as soon argue with a maniac from Bedlam, as with the Senator from New Hampshire.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.