Quotes About Debate

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

There is evidence that as we become less exposed to opposing viewpoints, we become less logically competent as people.

Rule 4. Disagree better. Be part of a healthy competition of ideas.

Rule 5. Tune out: Disconnect more from the unproductive debates.

Resolve to pay attention to ideas, not just politics.

This is just an example of the age-old debate over two kinds of happiness that scholars refer to as hedonia and eudaimonia. Hedonia is about feeling good; eudaimonia is about living a purpose-filled life. In truth, we need both. Hedonia without eudaimonia devolves into empty pleasure; eudaimonia without hedonia can become dry.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

If Dick Shelby were to participate in a debate, it would answer a lot of questions about his health and cognitive ability.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

One can always debate questions back and forth.

I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.

The whole climate change debate gives - and there are all kinds of quotes from adherents of and promoters of climate change - the reason they're doing it is it's such a great opportunity to control, you know, pretty much, government, and control your lives.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.