Disputant Quotes

#1. The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#2. The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

William Warburton

#3. It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant." "No I ain't!

Terry Pratchett

#5. Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Walter Savage Landor

#6. Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. Bureaucracy was very rarely an obstruction, provided that one applied to it the insights of ordinary, everyday psychology

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

Octavia Butler

#9. They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

Linda Fiorentino

#10. It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

Joseph Campbell

#11. I saw him first, but it didn't matter. Because he saw her.

Kandi Steiner

#12. For me there is wonder in reading. Some stories take my mind down exciting, winding paths it has never been before.

R.J. Snow

#13. He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

Marilynne Robinson