204 quotes found
“It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.”
“If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to...”
“I know what I'm talking about, Alecto! When I think of Jud, I think of the times he wanted to be a coal miner, the times he took Wendy and me sailing in the harbour, the times he showed me how to p...”
“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”
“I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.”
“When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.”
“Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.”
“A fight like this was stunning, revealing not just how much he was on the lookout for enemies, but how she too was unable to abandon argument which escalated into rage. Neither of them would back o...”
“It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.”
“It wasn't an attack. We'd been together too many times before, made love together too many times before, for it to be that. It was just that fear had suddenly entered, and made us dangerous strange...”
“Hey, Alec," he said.The man was on his hands and knees, leaning his face into the middle of a bush; he grunted something that kind of sounded like a "Yeah?""Why are we spending so much time on this...”
“Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly fr...”
“Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.”
“A tightly woven argument is more impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.”
“A tightly woven argument is impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.”
“A mans mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.”
“When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will perhaps ...”
“An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - p...”
“Disputes with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksome; except, perhaps, those with persons, entirely disingenuous, who really do not believe the opin...”
“It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.”
