While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

There’s more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

It’s easier to win an argument over a dinner you’re paying for.

You could argue I’m a loser, but I’d win that debate thus proving you wrong by proving you wrong.

I thought it was a good, informative, positive debate,

We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The attack on the prophet is an attack on us.

One great thinker said one thing, another said another, and while the two thoughts are contradicting, the one that backs my argument at the moment is the superior statement.

I’m in the middle of a big debate,

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

SOAR changed the debate. Developers will still develop. But we said they should develop within these lines. And that is what has happened. When I drive through Ventura County, it is still awfully pretty.

I had 15 months there to debate it and back forth. At times, I was certain I was going to play and there were other times I was certain I wasn’t going to play, …...

I think that the soft or hard landing debate is misleading. Financial markets usually have hard landings regardless of how an economy lands.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes… You will be...

God help anybody who has to debate with Byrd.

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and...

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks...

[Neither method] really quells the ethical debate, … It’s not clear it’s going to answer all the critics.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

The real debate around this witch hunt isn’t between us and the Vatican, it’s between the Vatican and the truth. When the church makes gay men a scapegoat for pedophiles, it ignores one problem and...

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult...

I think the American people are going to fall asleep watching the drab debate the dreary.

There was a lot of debate whether these jetties should have been built. It might have been better if they’d gone further north. There’s a rock reef here about 12 feet below the surface, so...

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

Love is two unicorns arguing over which is better: one animal with two horns, like a bull, or two animals with one horn apiece. I guess it doesn’t matter, because you should never debate when...

Is there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?” Not one person raised their hand.

This has been the source of much public debate. But I ask everyone to respect the decision and offer Jens the trust he needs.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of...

With this complex issue, the devil is truly in the details. Too much of the debate has not been focused on provisions that would bar the courthouse door for many immigrants who deserve their day...

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

There is a debate among peace activists if impeachment is the thing to do.

What we’re doing is protecting elderly disabled immigrants in nursing homes, … They’re not part of the welfare reform debate. The welfare reform debate is about moving people from welfare to work.

There is nothing more to debate.

The debate on interest-rate cuts is still a live one.

We did have a long hydrocarbon debate before we built, so we used propane. We also tried to do something fairly aggressive with solar heating. We generally produce about 30 percent of our energy.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend’s...

It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

That said, the disclosure debate is one that needs to happen. The idea of full disclosure is just about as dangerous as no disclosure at all. As with most things, we have to find the...

I think it’s pretty clear that every debate she’s participated in has been a disaster for her.

Over and above the debate about which of us is best we both represent our continent and we both play in big clubs.

Countries like Sweden and Italy have been having this huge debate for many years over population decline. A lot of the debate is about immigration: People have been telling them they need to increase immigration...

He’s going to debate the Republican opponent in the general election, not in the primary. The Republicans should have their own debate.