Quotes About Debate

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

those who deny that some being is 'contingent' should be exposed to torments until they concede that it is possible for them not to be tormented.

There is considerable debate among investigators of the abduction phenomenon about whether, given the harsh and often terrorizing methods the aliens employ, the intelligence at work might be evil or mean us harm.

Math doesn't respond well to opinion.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

so she let him have the last word. Again.

Henry Fosdick says, "Until the New Theology can produce the sinless character of the old theology, it stands challenged.

Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.

If there is any debate about peace, do not discuss each clause with excessive subtlety, for exactness produces contention and contention excites and ignites the dangerous flames of hatred." Consider the bigger picture and the damage that will accrue to the church if you persist in your quarrel

History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things.

I suggest that we must be defined not by our salvation but by our faith. The "Lordship Salvation" debate is frustrating because sometimes proponents on both sides make it sound as if "salvation" is the reason for our faith.43 That cannot be right. Salvation is a benefit of our faith gained by the grace of God; God is the reason for our faith.

And while I at length debate and beat the bush,There shall step in other men and catch the birds.

Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation

Everybody is forever saying that the essay is dead. This is always said in essays.

Finally, when historians contest interpretations of the past among themselves, they're liberating it in yet another sense: from the possibility that there can be only a single valid explanation of what happened.

not by the force of arguments and opposition, but by the intricacy of the words

The entire gun control debate would likely be dramatically different if the national media would cover some of the heroic actions of permit holders.