Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about who you stand to be, not… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. — Richard Henry Pratt Copy Share Image
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and… — William James Copy Share Image
“Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from… — Earl Devere Copy Share Image
I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself:… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
“...the tension between them was so thick and sticky it was almost visible, like layers of cobweb.” — Emma Törzs Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into… — Jonathan Krohn 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
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image