Quotes About Debate

We are all philosophers here where I am, and we debate among many other things the question of where it is that we live. On that issue I am a liberal. I live in the interstice yes, but I live in both the city and the city.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

THE DOWNSIDE OF PROVOKING disagreement is that it can curdle into bitter politics.

Remember, a great conversation with a customer is not debate practice. Be a learner, not an interrogator.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

It is highly culturally diagnostic that the debate about climate change has been, from all quarters, heavily shaped by claims of conspiracy.

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

When there is contradiction between what science knows and what religion believes, there can be no compromise; religion must yield.

Acaso ignoras que lo que más se discute y debate es precisamente lo que más valor tiene?

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Atheisten langweilen mich, weil sie immer nur von Gott sprechen.

It is still possible, in an election, to use the word emigrant in such a way that it damages one's opponent

Efes Damim (No Blood), was originally published in Wilna in 1837 and included text in Hebrew, Latin, Russian, and Polish. The book was subsequently translated into German, French, and English. But on the other side of the debate, the scribblings of August Rohling, a fraudulent professor of Catholic theology who had taught in Milwaukee, Münster, and Prague, were also translated.

All human conflict is ultimately theological.

thousands of people. She debated her opponent on National Public Radio and found herself in the center

Isn't it strange how some people strive to drag everything into politics! A political reason is assigned to everything, and "everything is politics.

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.

Na maior parte das vezes, discutimos com ardor apenas porque não conseguimos de maneira alguma compreender o que exatamente o nosso adversário quer demonstrar.

It was futile class of people who discussed not merely science and poetry but even the ways of governing men

It most often happens that you argue hotly only because you can't understand what precisely your opponent wants to prove.