489 Quotes About Debate

Try to find the merit in each other’s arguments.

Politics is the art of persuasion. Good ideas die because due to a lack of charisma or character.

Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That’s exactly how you look to them.

Una democracia sin debate presidencial es una democracia coja! El debate presidencial simboliza transparencia democrática. Allí podrás ver cuál actitud asume un candidato respecto al tema discutido y cuáles son sus cualidades verdaderas.

Elend smiled, preparing his next argument. He could keep this discussion going for quite sometime. For, if there was one thing in particular that he had learned by growing up in his father's house it was this: how to annoy people.

Be as affronted as you please, just don’t volunteer anything. If you see what appears to be an opening in debate, remember that it was ingeniously laid down in front of you by Bolingbroke as coquettes drop handkerchiefs at the feet of men they would ensnare.

I don't debate where there is no debate. I'm smart. You're stupid. Debate over.

The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they’re wrong... Until they come face to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, and resilient enough to endure the thinly veiled intellectual abuse they dish out during debate, they’re never forced to question their ability to defend bad ideas.

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as an issue, and make public debate the contents of their art. In doing so they are not redefining art so much as redefining public space. The debate itself has become the public space.