The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of… — Swami Abhedananda Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A sports writer who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and have a real baseball argument, and Tony would… — Colin Cowherd Copy Share Image
“How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition,… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“I can quote you several examples where women were physically and violently hurt by men but at the same time, they were… — Shahla Khan Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It is true that there's an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and… — James Corden Copy Share Image
“It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the only ones which men… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a… — Peter Scott Copy Share Image
Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them,… — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Facts without context are like individuals without society. Just as an individual must find his or her place in society or else… — Tom King Copy Share Image
Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments,… — Theodore Austin-Sparks Copy Share Image
I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other… — John Deacon Copy Share Image
I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
If you get caught in an argument, just accept that you can have only two outcomes from it: win or lose. Settle… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Never Get Into An Argument With A Customer. If You Win The Argument You Will Almost Invariably Lose The Sale. And I… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Every relationship has its lows and highs, but how you deal with it is important. There is nothing wrong with argument, but… — Namrata Shirodkar Copy Share Image