Discussion Quotes

“Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.”

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference”

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please”

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little”

“Men argue; nature acts”

“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”

“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum”

“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”

“A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy”

“Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible”

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable”

“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine”

“My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.”

“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue”

“We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence”

“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”

“What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party”

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”

“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse”