Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
“I have just described an unforgettable event in my life, and yet I hardly ever get a chance to speak of it.… — Ruth Klüger Copy Share Image
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics.… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can… — Jeffrey Rowland Copy Share Image
If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why… — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“right" way to be Chicana/o also could be a hegemonic discourse and exclusionary of those who do not fit. They recognized the… — Dolores Delgado Bernal Copy Share Image
We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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