Playing Devil's Advocate Quotes

#1. People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

Cecily Strong

#2. So you're getting back together with her? Just like that? Muriel asks.
"Not 'just like that'..." "How then?" Muriel enjoys playing devil's advocate. "For starters, it will have to be long distance for a while..." She doesn't let up. "For a while? Have you booked the U-Haul already?

Harper Bliss

#3. Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

David Bowie

#4. Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

Lucretius

#5. We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood. But Rushdie talks throughout of making something sacred, whereas there is another kind of sacrality that exists of its own right.

Wendy Beckett

#6. Love grew commendably dependable - love was eggs, love was ham, love was the morning paper.

Graham Moore

#7. I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

Toni Morrison

#8. It was always impossible to put a price on making your enemy shit their breeches.

Scott Lynch

#9. An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it's microbes. They're the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#10. Next time I will ... "
"From now on I will ... "
- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

Hugh Prather