Etymology Quote by Douglas F. Jack Download Open image ““Debate' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight')”” — Douglas F. Jack ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Etymology Word-origin
“Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place;… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
Debate is where you refine your arguments and I have often learned as much from my debating opponents as from my partners, maybe more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The fact is, as soon as you start with words you’re locked into a debate, forced to take a position with respect to others,… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Explicit arguments are the everlasting combat tools of a debate winner. Not the raising of the voice.” — Klaudio Marashi Copy Share Image
Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible.… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct-- "Darling, could you stroke my vagina?"--… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“IN THE fifteenth century, a swampy parcel of land in the sestieri of Cannaregio was set aside for the construction of a new brass… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us." — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
“He wonders aloud at the origins of valentining. 'You're right,' Rachel says. 'It is a verb. Can be. And birds valentine each other, make… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
