LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“There are two different evils about propaganda as now practised. On the one hand, its appeal is generally to irrational causes of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“But Curtis had come to the table with something they’d never expected, something they would have thought outmoded and out-lived in the… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind.… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It as an argument between the world of emotion versus the world of the intellect. It's the idea that you can suppress… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far.… — Bobby Cox Copy Share Image
The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition expressed in numbers is definitely false or true. In all… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be… — Jinasena Copy Share Image
Most of this film, however, is about interpretation - are these people terrorists or freedom fighters? Are they good or bad? Is… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
“After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“Even when we're right, we may be wrong. If--in the process of debate--we've hurt the heart of another being, it matters not… — Shakieb Orgunwall Copy Share Image
The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think what hinders the argument is when people are afraid of hurting the feelings of racists and people who are genuinely… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
