Quotes about Debate

Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.

Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't have the answer to that debate, and frankly I don't care because when you try to pinpoint 'why,' it can often lead to blaming another person, an incident in your past, or circumstances.

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.

Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.