Quotes About Debate

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

When two intelligent parties disagree, that's when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges. From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.

But even if we disagree, perhaps even strongly, it is still possible to hold a civil dialogue where ideas find their way out into the open.

Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?' "'It happens, Jules.

Firecracker Gale and dandelion Peeta are so different from each other that it's easy to imagine that a girl who would choose Gale is a completely different person than one who would choose Peeta. When people sit around debating who Katniss should choose, maybe what they're really debating actually is her identity - and the romance is just a proxy for that big, hard question about the ever-changing, unaware girl on fire.

Jack Peyton is HOT!" someone from the audience yelled. "Toby Klein is HOTTER" a male voice argued, and I almost went into an epileptic fit of disgust at both the words and the tone. "Now, now," Jack said, raising his hands. "Don't be ridiculous. Mr. Corkin is clearly the hottest

This wasn't instinct," the man—Adam—countered. "This was guilt, Ivy." "I'm not debating this with you." "Evidence would suggest you are.