Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Oh, go to bed!" Dan said that, and went away. "Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
“Argument in Isolation" Premise: one exists alone, Within a system of increasingly mild ideals —The good of love, the greater good of… — John Koethe Copy Share Image
Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future.… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue… — Matthew d'Ancona Copy Share Image
“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument—… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea .… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been… — Adam LaVorgna Copy Share Image
Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
...genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself… — Philip Morrison Copy Share Image
Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the… — George Burton Adams Copy Share Image
There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“I also recommend that both parties observe a “two-minute rule” in which neither interrupts the other, so they both have time to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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![“What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.” quote by Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce4/zadie-smith-584_argument_what-interests-me-in-lincoln-in-the-bard_1764730.png)
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