Belief Quote by William Borah

“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception…

— Samuel Johnson

“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis,…

— David Hume

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion,…

— Frances Wright

“Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion," said Merlyn with the deepest sincerity, "are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force, a sort…

— T.H. White

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

— Albert Guerard

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If…

— Benjamin Franklin

Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to…

— Frances Wright

“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen…

— Anne Brontë

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take…

— Michel de Montaigne

Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One…

— Herbert J. Muller

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

— Walter Martin

“Without such rules, there are no exchanges of ideas, only exchanges of set positions and insults. People who disagree rapidly move from talking over…

— Judith Martin