Able Quote by Alan Dershowitz

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view…

— Richard Carlson

What I did as a professor is not that different than what I do in hearings.

— Katie Porter

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

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

— Niall Ferguson

“...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition.…

— Charlie Munger

“Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument.”

— Deepak Chopra

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than…

— Al-Ghazali

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend…

— Sarah Silverman

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

— Hal Boyle

“I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view,” he said.…

— Milo Yiannopoulos