Quotes About Discussion

There's always somebody you can call and go have lunch with and just talk out an idea. And it's great, because I need that. It's part of my writing process, to early on sit people down and say, 'Alright, this film I'm working on...' and I tell them everything I have.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

People now know of the word intervention and think they understand what it means, but more often than not they go about intervening the wrong way. I see people staging things on their own. But discussing the nature of somebody's condition over breakfast isn't an intervention.

People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues that arise from high taxes, oppressive regulation, seizure of private property, and dictating of individual behavior, people understand them, and they reject them.

'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching.

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I am grateful. Arabs need to read in their own language so they can understand and discuss the various aspects and complications of democracy in the United States and the West.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.

There is one funding suggestion that should be part of any transportation discussion, but most people don't want to talk about it - raising the gas tax.

Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.

Reivindicar la libre discusión nos sitúa de entrada en el terreno de la democracia. El objetivo de la dictadura no es refutar la opinión contraria sino suprimir violentamente su expresión.

Podczas pobytu na dworze carycy Katarzyny II wielki szwajcarski matematyk Leonhard Euler wda? si? w dyskusj? na temat istnienia Boga. Aby pokona? przeciwników, poprosi? o tablic?, na której napisa?: (x + y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2, a wi?c Bóg istnieje! Nie mog?c zakwestionowa? adekwatno?ci wywodu, którego nie rozumieli, i nie chc?c okaza? swojej niewiedzy, oponenci przyj?li ten argument za rozstrzygaj?cy.

What, after all, is the difference between a sectarian school which disallows challenges to the divinity of Christ and a so-called nonideological school which disallows discussion of the same question? In both contexts something goes without saying and something else cannot be said (Christ is not God or he is). There is of course a difference, not however between a closed environment and an open one but between environments that are differently closed.

Maar zelfs tussen betrouwbare mensen verveelde ik me steeds meer bij de onvruchtbaarheid van de eeuwige discussies en de zelfverkozen verzuiling in radicale, liberale, anarchistische, bolsjewistische en onpolitieke groepen; voor het eerste leerde ik werkelijk het eeuwige type van de professionele revolutionair waarnemen, die zich door zijn oppositionele positie boven zijn onbeduidendheid uitgetild voelt en zich vastklampt aan het dogmatische omdat hij in zichzelf geen houvast heeft.

I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion