Quotes About Discussion

it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone.

Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognised as the vital question of the future.

Ä°nsan hatalar?n? tart??ma ve deneyim yoluyla düzeltebilir. Yaln?zca deneyimle deÄŸil. Tart??ma da olmak zorundad?r ki deneyimin nas?l yorumlanaca?? gösterilebilsin.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end. Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they are so fortunate as to find one.

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

a debate isn't a competition, it's a civil war.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

He continued, "I just want to say that your paper was the best discussion I know of the subject, and I'm grateful that you volunteered to give it.

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Talk about anything long enough, and you cut it down to size.

Don't start me talking I could talk all night My mind goes sleepwalking While I'm putting the world to right.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Nothing more abominable than the critic and, a fortiori, the philosopher in each of us: if I were a poet, I should behave like Dylan Thomas, who, when people would discuss his poems in his presence, would drop to the floor in a fit of convulsions.

Les héros homériques vivaient et mouraient; les snobs de l'Occident discutaient du plaisir et de la douler.

The free discussion of daily matters, the delicate delineation of domestic detail, the passing narrative of fugitive occurrences, would seem light and transitory, if it were not broken by the interruption of a terrible earnestness, and relieved by the dark background of a deep and foreboding sadness.

But a government by discussion, if it can be borne, at once breaks down the yoke of fixed custom.

I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

The nice thing about a round table is that it can seat an almost infinite number of people, as King Arthur found out long ago.

It was too early in the day for this kind of discussion – but really, was it ever too early to discuss matters of the heart? What if the moment passed and never returned?

come by," he said, waving Alex into the house. "Did you meet with Brady?

From her perspective, reading, discussions, forums, and lectures were as important to a movement for social change as mass protests, boycotts, and strikes.