Entertaining Quote by Alice Thomas Ellis

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

— Stephen King

“Logical minds, accustomed to be convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion when addressing…

— Gustave Le Bon

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

— Anonymous

Hmmm! and there is a Yes to every No and a No to every No if you have something that is being opposed by…

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in…

— Richard Greenberg

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

— Warren Buffett

I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions…

— Dale Jamieson

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away?…

— Nikita Khrushchev

“If Consequentialists do not formulate inferences that are established through valid cognition in their own system, they would not even in their dreams formulate…

— Karl Brunnholzl

It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on…

— Pauline Hanson

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

— Haruki Murakami