“Oh, go to bed!" Dan said that, and went away. "Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
“People need to learn the art of making an argument. Often there is no right or wrong. It's just your opinion vs… — J'son M. Lee Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most hilarious thing about people holding up their right to free speech is how much it weakens everything else they've said.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Expand the authority, validity and integrity of your argument or view. Consider making a true defense for your belief from a foundation… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“If someone has the power to make a change that he or she can see will reduce injustice in the world, then… — Thandeka Gqubule Copy Share Image
Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Though I don't have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans - the… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
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