Quotes About Debates

How one in the modern world views Jesus's miraculous actions is irrelevant. All that can be known is how the people of his time viewed them. And therein lies the historical evidence. For while debates raged within the early church over who Jesus was—a rabbi? the messiah? God incarnate?—there was never any debate, either among his followers or his detractors, about his role as an exorcist and miracle worker.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Demand that your people pursue two seemingly conflicting things at the same time. Make it your mission to understand the nuances of your businesses so that you can shape and guide your teams' intellectual inquiry. Allocate your time thoughtfully; don't become a victim of your calendar. Carve out time to read, research, and think. Turn your meetings into vigorous, instructive debates.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blamable than in philosophical debates to endeavor to refute any hypothesis by a pretext of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality (Hume, 1739, p.456).

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

The American people aren't focused on the debates of the past. They're focused on their future. They're focused on the challenges that we're facing at home and abroad.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

I've watched presidential debates since I was a teen, and I love it.

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.

Photography wasn't even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world of fine-art photography consider digital photography as somehow "less artistic," when it is merely a change in process, not vision. The debates will always be there, but your vision is yours alone.

There is, after all, a real limit to how much ordinary people can learn and know, and to demand that each and every one of them contribute 'strong opinions' to the great debates of the nation cannot, surely, be wise. It is, in any case, absurd that anyone should presume to define a person's 'dignity' in these terms.

Rather, debates are conducted, and crucial decisions arrived at, in the privacy and calm of the great houses of this country. What occurs under the public gaze with so much pomp and ceremony is often the conclusion, or mere ratification, of what has taken place over weeks or months within the walls of such houses.

En los últimos tiempos evitaba las discusiones políticas con desconocidos; por lo general, siempre tenían respuestas fáciles para todo: enviar a todos los mexicanos a casa, reclutar a los Ángeles del Infierno para el ejército, castrar a los maricones Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Cuanto mayor era su ignorancia, más vehementes eran sus opiniones.

Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.