Discussion And Argument Quotes

#1. Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

Albert Einstein

#2. But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

Adin Ballou

#3. There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

George Eliot

#4. A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument ... and the occasional bar fight.

J. Michael Straczynski

#5. You have a passionate, unfiltered, messy, provocative discussion that ends when the leader of the team decides all the information has been aired. At that point, if no one has made a compelling enough argument for making a decision, the leader breaks the tie.

Patrick Lencioni

#6. Try not to force your idea on someone, but rather think about it with him. If you feel you have won the discussion, that also is the wrong attitude. Try not to win in the argument; just listen to it

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

Bharat

#8. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress (Joseph Joubert).

David Webb

#9. Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#10. The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert

#11. Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

#12. He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that he's won the argument not because he is correct but because you can't outwit him.

Liezi

#13. Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

Paul Brunton

#14. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
[Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)]

Louis D. Brandeis

#15. There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hannah Arendt

#16. The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Bertrand Russell

#17. The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

Christopher Hitchens

#18. Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

D.E. Navarro

#19. The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.

Aspen Baker

#21. The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may become Christians and then live under the Lordship of Christ in the whole spectrum of life.

Francis Schaeffer

#22. I knew it was bad. I knew it was bad because Braden didn't say anything. He seared me into my walls with a look I never wanted to see in his eyes again, and then he spun on his heel and slammed out of my room.
No argument. No discussion.

Samantha Young

#23. Inviting argument is easy. The goal is write something bold enough to invite contrary feedback and provoke real discussion.

Jen Knox