Argument Quote by George H. Smith

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

— Galileo Galilei

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

— Aesop

“The moral attitudes of dominant and privileged groups are characterised by universal selfdeception and hypocrisy. The unconscious and conscious identification of their special interests…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

“...[W]e must not let it enter our minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize that we…

— Socrates

“What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody…

— Wim Wenders

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

— Peter Kreeft

Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.

— John Dewey

“Impartiality is incompatible with the will to affirm oneself or quite simply with the will to exist. To acknowledge another’s merits is an alarming…

— Emil Cioran

A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.

— Aesop

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

— Anonymous

“So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes – - the one evil…

— Charles Colson