Debate Quotes Quotes

“Guns make small men feel big.”
― Oliver Gaspirtz

“There is never a moment where I find Trump persuasive. When I look at him I see a man without any inner life. I see the most superficial person on Earth. This is a guy who has been totally hollowed out by greed and self regard and delusion. If I caught some sort of brain virus and I started talking about myself the way Trump talks about himself, I would throw myself out a fucking window. That barely overstates it. Do you remember that scene at the end of The Exorcist where the priest is driving out the devil from Linda Blair and the devil comes into him and he just hurls himself out the window to end all the madness? Well, it would be like that.”
― Sam Harris

“You don’t win a debate by suppressing discussion; you win it with a better argument.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Most of my opinions are not as informed and well rounded as I would like. I have to be humble enough to accept that I don’t know enough. If my goal is to understand something true, then being challenged is a good thing. We need to be challenged occasionally and to get out of the echo chamber that is your own philosophical group or your own confirmation biased mind. The alternative is to only be able to hear one narrative and for those who oppose that narrative to be silenced, or to have uncivil debate by two polar opposite opinions. Truth is usually found to be hidden in a field of nuance and, as Albert Maysles said, “Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Free speech and debate are essential in our search for the truth.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“In order to think through things clearly, we need other opinions and viewpoints in order to navigate into the nuance. We need civil debate to present opposing viewpoints and point out our blind spots. We need the ability to speak freely and civilly to one another.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“True friends fiercely debate issues and still walk away as friends.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Debate, but do not argue.
Challenge, but do not force your opinions.
To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.
To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let’s stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.”
― Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade

“Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is easier to wrestle minds than to conquer hearts.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Before debating anything with me, tell me the language of fish?”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“How will you know if your ideas are sound if you don’t let people challenge them?”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Great ideas don’t have to be forced on people.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Deep Thought of the day...I don't wanna be "right" I just wanna find all the right answers.
As far as Me always being "right" well that's just a by-product of all those right answers.
Any More Questions?”
― @AnonymousXgHOST

“Any rational thinking person who believes people are entitled to their opinions should not be angry when they express one.”
― Eduvie Donald

“If you do not read or listen to process and understand context, your response will always be shallow, spiteful and wrong.”
― Eduvie Donald

“Debate as if you’re right but listen in case you’re wrong.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“A dispute about race devolves into racism.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“You don’t win a debate by suppressing discussion, you win it with a better argument.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“The reason that these men, from that area, have that type of power is because America has a seniority system, and those who have this seniority have been there longer than anyone else because the black people in the areas where they live, can't vote. And it is only because the Black man is deprived of his vote that puts these men in positions of power that gives them such influence in the government beyond their actual intellectual or political ability, or even beyond the number of people from the areas that they represent”
― Malcolm X "Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice"