I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it?… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing , it must become criticism. Ask… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The majority of donations should go to places with a longtermist mind-set. I want to be careful about being too dictatorial about… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
