Quotes about Debate

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About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the ap — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest p — Shannon L. Alder
Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosoph — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable. — Stefan Molyneux
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at — Christopher Hitchens
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest. — William Penn
It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet — Criss Jami, Killosophy
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world. — Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. — Richard Henry Pratt
Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in. — Carl R White
Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight t — Jacqueline Winspear, In This Grave Hour
If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand — instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy
In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scot — Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together i — C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as — Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life