Quotes About Discussion

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Tears are not arguments.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

Scholarship is polite argument.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

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

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

Giving patients the information that they need—not necessarily the standard of care in 1964—goes a long way toward relieving the anxiety and fear that worsen pain. But what was impressive was the magnitude of the effect. The group with the extra discussion needed half the amount of pain medication that the control group needed.

Bucky B. Katt: I'm not closed minded you're just wrong

exactly why the media is so distrusted: An activist writes an arguably libelous article. Then one of the subjects of the article invites the author to discuss said article. The author then declines and is lauded by his own community as a righteous defender of truth.