Quotes About Debate

I'd agree with you, except that agreeing with you probably means I'm on the wrong side of the argument.

Clearly there was no headway to be made in an argument when one's opponent was insane.

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her.

The ceremonial key to the city of Padua] is engraved with a quote from Galileo that is also on display at the physics department of the university...'I deem it of more value to find out a truth about however light a matter than to engage in long disputes about the greatest questions without achieving any truth.

Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

An unenthusiastic chorus responds, "We encourage vigorous debate. Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

We encourage vigorous debate. Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

Hunting after arguments to make good one side of a question, and wholly to neglect and refuse those which favor the other side ... [is] willfully to misguide the understanding; and is so far from giving truth its due value, it wholly debases it.

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

Solberg; nature's greatest argument against cloning.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

Staying with statements that are still assertive, but placed in the subjective format can help in debate, conversations and communication. It can open as many doors for authority, while applying humility and honor for another persons views.

Ellos solos cubren, en una labor casi heroica la cuota de sandeces de toda la población. Les someten cualquier cuestión, y todas las abordan con esa mezcla fascinante de ignorancia, demagogia e irresponsabilidad que los convierte en una encarnación perfecta de la estupidez colectiva. (Sobre los tertulianos).

You could start an argument in an empty house.

Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent. ~ Lord Aquitainus Attis ~ Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

They didn't use discussion as a sham process to let people "have their say" so that they could "buy in" to a predetermined decision. The process was more like a heated scientific debate, with people engaged in a search for the best answers.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.

Never Raise Your Voice.. Just Improve The Quality Of Your Argument..

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience.