Quotes About Argument

Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Don't worry about him, she would say, that's how he is—every time we start an argument I end up with a monologue. Or Some husbands take lovers, mine he take the Fifth.

In a courtroom I can sell ice to Eskimos

The essence of verification is multiple lines of reasoning that converge at a single point.

One of the first things you learned in law school was that the law was not about truth. It was about dispute resolution. In the course of resolving a dispute, the truth might or might not emerge.

I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

Preachers delivered sermons on the Constitution, pro and con.

To defend the Club against the new idea, the members had to distort the idea. By the end of the 2003 baseball season I had learned something from publishing Moneyball. I learned that if you look long enough for an argument against reason you will find it.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.

She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt to arrange her thoughts in the conventional manner.

This history of mine,' Herodotus says, 'has from the beginning sought out the supplementary to the main argument.' What you find in him are cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history—how people betray each other for the sake of nations, how people fall in love....

You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

While we fight and argue about abortion and sexual orientation, we apparently forgot one of the greatest sins that God continuously acknowledges He hates: pride.

Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

I mean, Patrick Chan, you could make the argument he's the best skater that ever was.

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer's room.