Quotes about Debate

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

A gun is not an argument.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate.