Quotes About Debate

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

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

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Does God really make friendly bets with Satan? Why would a just God kill a man's children in order to score debating points? Was Job tested beyond what a human being can endure? When does the action in Job occur? Why did God bother to appear to Job in the first place if He wasn't going to answer his questions? And just where is the Land of Uz? These

I remember watching these kids getting up in the morning on my dorm floor, putting on a suit and tie and a briefcase, talking about this guy from California named Ronald Reagan and how he was going to be the next president," says Mould. "And I'd be sitting there arguing with those fucks in speech class and poli sci and just hating that, thinking, 'This is not acceptable behavior. This is not what we're supposed to be doing with our late teens.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Preachers delivered sermons on the Constitution, pro and con.

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.

Financial markets are a collection of arguments.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.

You're not seriously telling us that LSD is less harmful than alcohol, are you?' Of course I am!

The loudest and most authoritative voices in the debate over psychedelics in the 1960s were precisely the people who knew the least about them.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

We had a really animated debate about whether we should allow third-party sellers to sell on the Amazon site.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

Parliament's job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of Parliament is in the favour of democracy. Therefore, parliamentary obstruction is not undemocratic.

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but be aware of the rising level of dialogue, debate, commentary, and proclamations about the place of women in society and about how to raise females in light of this raised consciousness.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.