Quotes About Debate

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

There is a difference between discussion and argument. A discussion airs the issues, but an argument alleges charges and appoint blame.

When a battle of wits begins between two people, the smarter of the two will concede knowing that the other person is unable to see any point of view other than their own.

S]kill at debate isn't the same as maturity.

So you see, this debate isn't just about commercials and cosmetics, it's about determining what's the appropriate relationship between the mind and the body. Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you have to agree, is a profound question.

First, the panic had struck a death blow at his presidency. Now the slavery debate was turning acrimonious, making normal politics impossible.

What's the problem that people have here in Spain with Maradona and Messi? They spend the whole day comparing them.

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

I've always been very passionate about issues. Being speaker, you kind of have to park the positions on issues and focus more on the rules.

I would say that of many, many difficult aspects of my job as speaker, presiding over a debate on a bill that has an emotional aspect to it on both sides is the most challenging thing that I can think of.

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.