Concessions Quote by Barney Frank

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

— Gad Saad

Sometimes, arguments results to fights because the wrong persons lack the courage to admit and accept their errors.

— Terry Mark

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

— Oscar Wilde

“A lively debate in a Braintrust meeting is not being waged in the hopes of any one person winning the day. To the extent…

— Ed Catmull

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or…

— Kurt Andersen

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

— John Leo

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to…

— Maria Edgeworth

“the late historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch in his book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. His description of…

— John Fea

“It is common for conversations to consist of people sharing their conclusions rather than exploring the reasoning that led to those conclusions. As a…

— Ray Dalio

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering…

— Benjamin Carson

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.

— Deepak Chopra

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

— Ray Dalio