A Quote by Sophocles

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
Greek - Poet
496 BC - 406 BC

The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

Thomas Sowell

Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

John Ortberg

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Jean de La Fontaine

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Bertrand Russell

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

John Locke

Argument is not always truth.

Lajos Kossuth

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

Patricia Richardson

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

Walter Savage Landor

The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

Joseph C. Aldrich

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

Ellen G. White

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

Yoshiki

I'd always been one of the strongest players in the game, but officially in 'Fifa 14' I was the strongest in the world. If they say so, I must be. I like that.

Adebayo Akinfenwa

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

Charlyne Yi

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

Jacques Barzun

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.