Quotes About Debate

The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

I believe I can do it, but one of the reasons I don't really get into the debate is people keep talking about a black James Bond: how a black man should play him.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we can never allow them to set the agenda.

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If I'm right -- and I know that you know I right -- I'm not going to continue going back and forth with you about it. Why should I waste time arguing with idiots?

Adjectives are not arguments.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

It's unfortunate in that it's only a step away from mere name-calling,

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.

The point is that, whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it. Few of us, unfortunately, practice this precept; but other people, fortunately, will supply the criticism for us if we fail to supply it ourselves.

I, however, believe that there is at least one philosophical problem, It is the problem of cosmology

A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

Haydi mast?rl?lar ve doktoral?lar, k?z??t?r?n ortal???! (Goethe, Faust)

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

though he's wrong about how these methods work. It's religion—facts don't matter, especially when the facts involve women's liberty.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.