Quotes About Debate

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Tears are not arguments.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.