“The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
The Ministry of Healing, p. 470
“The truth is always the strongest argument.”
Fragment 737.
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“The strongest argument proves nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience.”
[H]aec vocatur scientia experimentalis, quae negligit argumenta, quoniam non certificant, quantumcunque sint fortia, nisi simul adsit experientia conclusionis. Et ideo haec docet experiri conclusiones nobiles omnium scientiarum, quae in aliis scientiis aut probantur per argumenta, aut investigantur per experientias naturales et imperfectas...
Roger Bacon book Opus Tertium
OQHI, 43 http://www.mlat.uzh.ch/MLS/text.php?tabelle=Rogerus_Baco_cps4&rumpfid=Rogerus_Baco_cps4,%20Opus%20tertium,%20%2013&level=3&corpus=4&lang=0&current_title=Opus%20tertium&links=&inframe=1&hide_apparatus= as cited in: James J. Walsch (1911) """"Science at the Medieval Universities"""" in: Popular Science, May 1911, p. 449 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_78.djvu/459 <br class="br">Opus Tertium, c. 1267 <br class="br">Context: The strongest argument proves nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences, and the goal of all speculation.
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Gilbert to Helen
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
Context: I may illustrate this by two very different examples of human behaviour: that of a man who pushes a child into the water with the intention of drowning it; and that of a man who sacrifices his life in an attempt to save the child. Each of these two cases can be explained with equal ease in Freudian and in Adlerian terms. According to Freud the first man suffered from repression (say, of some component of his Oedipus complex), while the second man had achieved sublimation. According to Adler the first man suffered from feelings of inferiority (producing perhaps the need to prove to himself that he dared to commit some crime), and so did the second man (whose need was to prove to himself that he dared to rescue the child). I could not think of any human behaviour which could not be interpreted in terms of either theory. It was precisely this fact — that they always fitted, that they were always confirmed — which in the eyes of their admirers constituted the strongest argument in favour of these theories. It began to dawn on me that this apparent strength was in fact their weakness.
“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”
Frank Herbert book Children of Dune
Source: Children of Dune
Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) king of Prussia
Preface to “Histoire de mon temps”, Works (1743), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 82
“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
Misattributed
1998
Charles Darwin book The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
volume II, chapter XXI: "General Summary and Conclusion", page 393 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=410&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image <br class="br">The Descent of Man (1871)
“Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.