Quotes About Debate

Some people think I enjoy debate. I don't. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time.

Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Les escarmouches avec les théologiens avaient eu leur charme, mais il savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant. (L'acte d'accusation)

I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it.

Como disciplina intelectual, dijo, «es aburrido leer a los aliados, a quienes coinciden con nuestros puntos de vista. Más interesante es leer al enemigo, al que pone a prueba la solidez de nuestras defensas.

Reconocer ese margen de error en nosotros y de acierto en los demás es creer que discutiendo, dialogando —coexistiendo— hay más posibilidades de identificar el error y la verdad que mediante la imposición de un pensamiento oficial único, al que todos deben suscribir so pena de castigo o descrédito.

The Battle of Hue would be the bloodiest of the Vietnam War, and a turning point not just in that conflict, but in American history. When it was over, debate concerning the war in the United States was never again about winning, only about how to leave. And never again would Americans fully trust their leaders.

Newfoundlanders debated over when the cod was coming back. Few dared ask if. Or what happens to the ocean if they don't come back?

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

Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Theism produces sloppy ways of thinking because it doesn't necessarily respect reason but instead favors fiction.

Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound.com, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.

If this was what vegetarianism meant in most of the places that practice it in the West, I'd be at least half as much less of a dick about the subject.

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Men who think much want to speak often

Both Lizzieites and anti-Lizzieites were disposed to think that Lizzie was very clever.

Though Mr. Crawley was now but a broken reed, and was beneath his feet, yet Mr. Thumble acknowledged to himself that he could not hold his own in debate with this broken reed

Of course, sir; when a man's stomach rises above his intelligence, he'll have to argue accordingly,' said the Senator.

The idea that political virtue is all on one side is both mischievous and absurd. We allow ourselves to talk in that way because indignation, scorn, and sometimes, I fear, vituperation, are the fuel with which the necessary heat of debate is maintained.

But I should never have had patience to sit all night upon that bench in the House of Commons. How men can do it! They mustn't read. They can't think because of the speaking. It doesn't do for them to talk. I don't believe they ever listen. It isn't in human nature to listen hour after hour to such platitudes. I believe they fall into a habit of half-wakeful sleeping, which carries them through the hours; but even that can't be pleasant

Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.