Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't… — Steve Israel Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The Bible is not an argument. It is a record of human experience. The point is not to prove that it’s the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God,… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist.… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“This is a small episode in an unending argument between those who know they are right and therefore claim the mandate of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we do not counter the argument that most radical nationlists use, which is, 'To protect is to be protectionist,' if we… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason… — Junius Copy Share Image
“The biggest thing I have thrown at my ex during an argument was a kitchen spoon. I missed and broke an ornament.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle,… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there… — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views… — Umar Copy Share Image
"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument. — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image