A universal weakness of humanity is to equate the strength…

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

— Napoleon Hill

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and…

— William E. Gladstone

“What do you feel when you reach into yourself? Your own strength, and weakness, and humanity. Your own frailty and might.”

— Ripley Patton

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be…

— Bertrand Russell

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

— David Crystal

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in…

— Paulo Coelho

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

— Barack Obama

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

— Michael Servetus

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

— Dan Savage

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

— Rowan Williams