Centre Quote by Randa Abdel-Fattah

“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

Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.

— Harvey Mackay

“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

I believe in reasoned debate.

— Lorne Greene

“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

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Healthy debate occurs when people can agree that they have differences of opinions, not differences in facts.”

— Robert J. Braathe

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

— Aristotle

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

— Jim Lehrer

“The population of an inference is thus equivalent to the breadth or scope of an argument.”

— John Gerring

“Believing a given proposition is a matter of believing that it faithfully represents some state of the world, and this fact yields some immediate…

— Sam Harris

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

— Will Rogers