65 Quotes About Debating
- Author Bryant McGill
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Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.
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- Author G.K. Chesterton
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I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We sometimes agree with a statement until we get to the name of the person to whom it is attributed.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.
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- Author Donna Lynn Hope
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Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You’ll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.
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- Author Pearl Zhu
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Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Are there so many words in the English language that we must somehow exhaust every single one of them in some blithering defense of some cherished opinion? Or, would it be far, far more prudent to simply shut up and live out that opinion in ways that the English language has no words describe?
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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If someone can’t see from your perspective, don’t bend their neck.
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- Author Leah Hager Cohen
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Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate—in its original sense of “to consider something, to deliberate”—is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained.
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