Quotes About Discussion

I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years - but I hadn't been interested in doing a documentary about it. I felt there had been a lot done about Vietnam, and didn't know if I could add anything new to the discussion.

Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

There are no right or wrong answers. Not when it comes to literature.

An unenthusiastic chorus responds, "We encourage vigorous debate. Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

We encourage vigorous debate. Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

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

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

Well, it looks like you're on a mission to kill someone, Grace said. And since you won't look good in an orange jumpsuit, I thought we could discuss. I'd totally rock an orange jumpsuit. No one rocks orange. Talk to me.

Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent. ~ Lord Aquitainus Attis ~ Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

They didn't use discussion as a sham process to let people "have their say" so that they could "buy in" to a predetermined decision. The process was more like a heated scientific debate, with people engaged in a search for the best answers.

Communication is not a one-way street.

I remember thinking that I needed to discuss this with John.

It is a way of talking that tends to preclude further discussion, which may well be its intention: the public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth, a climate devoid of irony.

Lesbians discussed the dehumanizing aspect of American technology, in French.

You're talking to me." "Yes

Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.

Never Raise Your Voice.. Just Improve The Quality Of Your Argument..

that we have become a society that prizes opinion over fact, argument over discussion, and a fuzzy view of a possible future over a clear understanding of the past.

we have become a society that prizes opinion over fact, argument over discussion, and a fuzzy view of a possible future over a clear understanding of the past. A

we have become a society that prizes opinion over fact, argument over discussion, and a fuzzy view of a possible future over a clear understanding of the past.