Quotes About Debate

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But

If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person

You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person.

I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words

It is only intellectually lost who ever argue.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings.

Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head.

It should not be a crime to discuss any idea, however outrageous

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

A kiss, for instance, is not to be minimized, or its value judged by anyone else. I wonder do these men grade their pleasure in terms of whether their actions produce a child or not, and do they consider them more pleasant if they do. It is a question of pleasure after all, and what's the use of debating the pleasure of an ice cream cone versus a football game — or a Beethoven quartet versus the Mona Lisa. I'll leave that to the philosophers.

Socratic method," was based upon getting a "yes, yes" response. He asked questions with which his opponent would have to agree. He kept on winning one admission after another until he had an armful of yeses. He kept on asking questions until finally, almost without realizing it, his opponents found themselves embracing a conclusion they would have bitterly denied a few minutes previously

PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

So much of our time online is spent arguing or feeding arguments.

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped, "There is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians.

If salvation is the cure, then atheism is the prevention.

The apologists have shot themselves in the foot.

National Association of Evangelicals)

At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ? the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.

Dialogue is always more important than consensus.

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

humans believed that the earth was flat and ships venturing across the seas risked sailing off the edge. However, when we proved that the earth was round, the flat-earth advocates were eventually silenced. Creationists are today's flat-earth advocates, and I would be shocked if anyone still believes in Creationism a hundred years from now.