Quotes About Debate

There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can be described as an argument about whether or not this connection is true.

History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason.

Charges of racism are not a form of debate; they are meant to silence debate. Accusations of racism are often transparent attempts to choke off honest discussion.

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

I want to write a poem about "Truth," "Honor," "Dignity," and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it.

Any conversation with more than three people is typically a conversation with too many people.

When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious. For

Cuando no tienes claro en lo que crees, todo deriva en una controversia. Todo es discutible. Por el contrario, cuando tienes las ideas claras, las decisiones son fáciles.

When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

Arguing Without Understanding Is Unpersuasive

The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

If you disagreed with him politically, he usually implied that you were a pervert or a foreign agent of some kind. Many of his listeners loved to hear the other callers debased. They were the sort of listeners who spent a lot of time in front of their TVs watching professional wrestling.

He went on to praise the company they had just left, declaring that he knew no better way for a young man to form his mind than by frequenting the society of men of conflicting views and equal capacity. "Nothing," said he, "is more injurious to the growth of character than to be secluded from argument and opposition; as nothing is healthier than to be obliged to find good reasons for one's beliefs on pain of surrendering them.

An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.

In 1902, the Senator had been banned from the White House for punching out a colleague, mid-debate.

Charles used to say, "If God had meant boys to be fucked, he would have put a hole in their ass.

one by inflaming their passions, the other by extinguishing their reason

I'll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

Abraham Lincoln on October 1, 1858, less than four months after his famous "House Divided" speech.

Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.

The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final consecration never existed. ["Modern Christian Thought: The twentieth century, Volume 2" by James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, p.13]

There are two sides to any argument. Does one side always have all the answers? Give it some thought.