Quotes about Debate
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
— Samuel Johnson
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
— Eric Metaxas
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
There is a difference between discussion and argument. A discussion airs the issues, but an argument alleges charges and appoint blame.
— Bishop TD Jakes
I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.
— Rachel Held Evans
I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
— Albert Einstein
I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).
— Ray Comfort
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
— St. Jerome
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
— CS Lewis
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
— Carl Sagan