Quotes About Debate

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

All verbal spats have silent winners.

Debate, but do not argue.Challenge, but do not force your opinions.To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

What are they fighting about?" Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. "They're arguing scripture." "Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

Bucky B. Katt: I'm not closed minded you're just wrong

cause of the coma was still a subject of some debate, Dr. Villalobos had said, but most likely, it was caused by stress

losing a debate isn't a sign of stupidity or weakness, but a sign of growth if you're willing to embrace it with humility. I

More guns! No guns! Second Amendment! Guns kill! No, people kill!

Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have "misled science into a dead end," the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin's paper, "we may still appreciate the role of Darwin in helping scientists [win an] upper hand in fighting against the creationists.

Perhaps the best argument in favor of the thesis that the Big Bang supports theism," the astrophysicist Christopher Isham has observed, "is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.

The Turing Test never claimed to be able to verify anything metaphysical, but that is where the debate is going. It is a debate about authenticity, which asserts or denies that there are attributes which are uniquely human, not so much conventional intelligence, but love, care and generosity. Turing believed that intuition was computable. Even if a computer passes his test, we won't know if he was right or not.