What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There… — Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman Copy Share Image
“people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after… — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no… — Oscar Wilde 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
We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
“Whenever somebody challenges me with the notion that killing carrots is no different to killing cows, I make a point of pointing… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
“I’m going to my room,” Jessie Kay called. “Y’all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I can listen in… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but,… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in… — John F. Akers Copy Share Image
“What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk… — Leonard Wibberley Copy Share Image
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
![“People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9b6/edward-snowden-555_argument_people-do-not-like-being-lied-to-and-the_2286163.jpg)
![“[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.” quote by William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a7a/william-lamb-2nd-viscount-melb_ability_f-riends-praise-your-abilities-to-the-sk_653277.jpg)
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