Quotes About Disputation

more than anything, it was ignorance that delivered conviction beyond the pale of disputation. Ignorance of questions. Ignorance of alternatives. No tyranny was so complete as blindness.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

Without external encouragement - which could sometimes become very strong - the world's literary and scholarly store would be scanty indeed. "Publish or perish" is nothing new; at the University of Bologna a professor was required to present his yearly disputation for publication and was heavily fined for dereliction.

Intellectuals who had made it to the West were beyond the reach of oppressive forces. They had a place of sanctuary. The fatwa changed all that. It redrew the boundaries of the free world, shrinking its borders and erasing zones of disputation from the map of the liberal mind.