204 quotes found
“Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.”
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
“It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.”
“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”
“Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. The...”
“She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new...”
“Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from war? And businesses, most of them except military and oil ones, most of them have a vested...”
“There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the brilliant, prickly, and iconoclastic late senator from New York. Apparently, Moynihan was in a heat...”
“The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - li...”
“Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst.”
“Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for...”
“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
“Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.”
“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been...”
“A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.”
“It's futile to point the finger of condemnation and say, "Men... this" or "Women... that". Truth is, we are all guilty and innocent of many of life's trials.”
“Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice.”
“By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?”
“It's a silly argument, and unnecessary. Creativity doesn't happen "in here" or "out there" but in the spaces in between. Creativity is a relationship, one that unfolds at the intersection of person...”
