Quotes About Debate

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

we need to bear in mind that the Reformation debate was not one between self-designated Catholics and Protestants; it was a debate about where the Catholic Church was to be found. 'Is the Pope a Catholic?' was not a joke in the sixteenth century.

There can be no arguing about matters of taste. I

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Dalam berargumentasi jangan mengeluarkan ejekan mau pun sindiran tajam.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Conservatism solves problems libralism blows em up.

Dialogue is just two monologues clashing.

The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel.

My reading had my mind like steam under pressure. Some way, I had to start telling the white man about himself to his face. I decided to do this by putting my name down to debate.

Ecologist Paul Ehrlich stressed that people who hold opposing opinions need to engage in open discussion with well-reasoned dissent. Positions should be questioned and criticized, not the people who hold them. Personal attacks preclude open discussion because, once someone is put on the defensive, fruitful exchanges are impossible, at least for the moment.

10. THE LITERARY CRITIC ALEXANDER Not to be constantly correcting people, and in particular not to jump on them whenever they make an error of usage or a grammatical mistake or mispronounce something, but just answer their question or add another example, or debate the issue itself (not their phrasing), or make some other contribution to the discussion—and insert the right expression, unobtrusively.

Not to be constantly correcting people, and in particular not to jump on them whenever they make an error of usage or a grammatical mistake or mispronounce something, but just answer their question or add another example, or debate the issue itself (not their phrasing), or make some other contribution to the discussion—and insert the right expression, unobtrusively.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

Utinam tam facile vera invenire possim quam falsa convincere.

It's astonishing how folks can get so worked up over something that doesn't exist.

Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.