Quotes About Debate

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.