Controversies Quotes
45 quotes by 41 authors
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.
— Charles Barkley
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In mathematics there are no true controversies.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and…
— George Washington
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential…
— Arthur Schuster
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No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be,…
— Rudolf Virchow
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies…
— John Donne
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Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.
— Luis Fernando Verissimo
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For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our Founding Fathers. They set forth principles that have endured…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
— George Washington
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Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source…
— Elaine Pagels
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But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and…
— Philipp Melanchthon
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Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by…
— Leonhard Euler
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Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history.…
— Carolyn Merchant
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HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness…
— Ambrose Bierce
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little…
— Immanuel Kant
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The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the…
— Fritz Sauckel
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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
— Freda Adler
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I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
— Josiah Warren
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I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.
— Barack Obama
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