Argument Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Cures Ideas Science Suppression
“You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument...” — Gary Nilsen Copy Share Image
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of… — John Thune Copy Share Image
Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
