Quotes About Debate

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

A gun is not an argument.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Without argument the species would parish.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.