Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is…

“Spiritual discourses with poor people is good, but what is the use of bad company of wealthy people?”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building solidarities. Theological…

— Namsoon Kang

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

— Michel Foucault

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

— Rae Armantrout

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's 'History,' compelled…

— Leo Strauss

“discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and…

— Benjamin Franklin

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

— Dallin H. Oaks

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present…

— Thomas Jefferson

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

— John Quincy Adams

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of…

— Elizabeth Montagu

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or…

— Garry Winogrand

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

— Darryl Dawkins

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

— James Nayler