It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments. — Maurice Bowra Copy Share Image
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician,… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not… — Francis William Newman Copy Share Image
All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone.… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put… — John Hume Copy Share Image
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Knowing Tim was a sucker for logical deduction and facts, he would pursue that avenue to entice Tim to step into the… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
“give it back, so Mom got into a big argument with the head of the” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
