All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are…

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

— Joseph Glanvill

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single…

— George Berkeley

“And if several of the more difficult sciences are still [pg 023] in so defective a state; if not only so little is proved,…

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Henry Wotton

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

— Eleanor Catton

“The faster you strip cultures down, the more you find contrariness and disputation, rather than a solid core, until eventually you reach the individual,…

— Nick Cohen

“I am not fond of disputation; I have no alternative.”

— Mencius

“Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Isaac Watts

“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

— John Calvin

“And dispute ye not with the People of the Book, except with means better [than mere disputation], unless it be with those of them…

— Abdullah Yusuf Ali

“They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks.”

— Travis Luedke

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called…

— Marlee Matlin

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

— Loretta Young