Quotes About Debate

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off on the wrong path with regard to Supreme Court decisions.

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

Argument is not always truth.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.