Quotes About Debate

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Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."

There can be no truce between science and religion.

They fight against popular creationism, but at the same time they fight fanatically for their own creationism," he

psychologists are too polite with one another's ideas.

Some say, that Signor Bononcini,Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;Others aver, to him, that HandelIs scarcely fit to hold a candle.Strange! that such high dispute should be'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards.

where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

the soundness of an argument depends on its content and logical structure rather than on who offers it.

The old debate between mind and matter is fast becoming as antiquated as a debate about the relative merits of various sorts of fountain pens. "Matter" is going out of style. The electron is turning out to be the Cartesian "pineal gland" which mediates in the obsolete opposition of mind and matter as the lines between these two antagonists in the ancient dualism are blurred by the electronic revolution.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because neither do they contend about matters of fact nor can they determine their controversies by any certain witnesses or judges.

In the post-modern academic world, truth is often alleged to be relative.

A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

apart from the few who make a professional specialty of arguing about religion, secularist thinkers are generally unacquainted with anything but absurd caricatures of traditional religious ideas and arguments, are utterly unaware that anything other than these caricatures exist, and thus don't bother to look for anything but straw men to attack.

As Alfred North Whitehead once put it, "those who devote themselves to the purpose of proving that there is no purpose constitute an interesting subject for study.

Overall, then, Aristotle just isn't as "sexy" as Plato. His only advantage is being right.

Myself when young did eagerly frequentDoctor and Saint, and heard great argumentAbout it and about: but evermoreCame out by the same door wherein I went.