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Debate QuotesFamous Debate quotes by popular authors such as George Bernard Shaw, C. S. Lewis, Margaret Thatcher, Wayne Dyer, Edmund Burke and others.
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[highlight-text]The argument is at an end.
Saint Augustine
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[highlight-text]The absent are easily refuted.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Exaggeration follows desperation.
Chris Bowyer
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[highlight-text]If you can't convince them confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]Wise men argue causes and fools decide them.
Anacharsis
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[highlight-text]Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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[highlight-text]Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
Jill Ruckleshaus
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[highlight-text]The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]Just as war is freedom's cost disagreement is freedom's privilege.
Bill Clinton
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[highlight-text]The sounder your argument the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion dissent and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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[highlight-text]I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
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[highlight-text]I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn
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[highlight-text]To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.
Olin Miller
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[highlight-text]The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]Arguing is really saying If you were really more like me then I could like you better.''
Wayne Dyer
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[highlight-text]Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Information usually seen as the precondition of debate is better understood as its by-product.
Christopher Lasch
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[highlight-text]Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
Wayne Dyer
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[highlight-text]It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Jeseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]I love argument I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me that's not their job.
Margaret Thatcher
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[highlight-text]Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action but beware of long arguments and long beards.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]The moment we want to believe something we suddenly see all the arguments for it and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]When you have the facts on your side argue the facts. When you have the law on your side argue the law. When you have neither holler.
Al Gore
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[highlight-text]Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander Hamilton
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[highlight-text]The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute cares nothing about the rights of the question but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato
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[highlight-text]A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard Nixon
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[highlight-text]I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think well if they attack one personally it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
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[highlight-text]I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic against any opponent. People know this and steer clear of me at parties. Often as a sign of their great respect they don't even invite me.
Dave Barry