Quotes About Debate

Quien trata de convencer a una mujer, de refutarle su punto de vista con argumentos razonables, difícilmente llegará muy lejos.

Quando parla il cuore non sta bene che la ragione trovi da obiettare.

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think it's fun to debate.

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

It's unfiltered conversation and I love it. I also like to argue with children, so it's the perfect platform for me.

Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.

expostulate.

O sabichão do grupo, não acredita em nada, zomba de todo mundo. Quando não tem argumentos, implica com os outros e toma o silêncio de seus interlocutores como concordância.

Who is hotter, Jensen Ackles or Jared Padalecki? The age-old debate continues!)

Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.

My arguments with my Inner Fundamentalist tend to end like this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or not end. They just go on and on.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. —Bene Gesserit Precept I

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one hand, there are those who openly dismiss the philosophical aspect

Morrie, as usual, had made his point: good conversational debate is an end to itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. p385

persuasively, that

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.

Religious sects, established and marginal, and some newly invented for the purpose, were dissecting the theological implications of the Message. Some thought it was from God, and some from the Devil. Astonishingly, some were even unsure.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in "its collision with error.

Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty. Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

What skeptical thinking boils down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and—especially important—to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion follow from the premise or starting point and whether that premise is true