Disputation Quotes

#1. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Deprecation always waits to be disputed, and, if the disputation does not come, becomes petulance.

Eleanor Catton

#3. A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

Stephen Fry

#4. The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.

Jon Meacham

#5. Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking

George Eliot

#6. The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

Thomas Hobbes

#7. Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

Isaac Watts

#8. All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Joseph Joubert

#9. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

Isaac Watts

#10. I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.

William Shakespeare

#11. I am not fond of disputation; I have no alternative.

Mencius

#12. The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

Henry Wotton

#13. The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

Joseph Glanvill

#14. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

Peter Abelard

#16. The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most nearly allied to him, than they are from one another.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#17. Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

Immanuel Kant

#18. What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

George Berkeley

#19. They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards.

John Calvin

#20. A Dream bring us to the most Beautiful Places.

Jan Jansen

#21. Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

Truman Capote

#22. Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

Vandana Shiva

#23. We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

Hasso Plattner

#24. Speak to the dead. Ask them what they miss most about living.

Marty Rubin

#25. Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#26. Don't expect a great day; create one.

Bob Proctor

#27. Live by faith. Live out loud. And never stop believing God-day by day.

Beth Moore

#28. The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

Ed Murray