Talk:Debate

Moved quotes where notability of the quotee has not been established here. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:00, 21 October 2005 (UTC)


 * "The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it." ~ Ed Howe
 * Could be E. W. Howe, add if his first name really is Ed or Edward.


 * "Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments." ~ Nathaniel Emmons

All quotees currently have a wikiquote page. If you add quotations by others, please either make sure they have a wikiquote or a wikipedia page, or add a short note providing evidence of notability in the talk page. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 20:44, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

-anonymous quotes-

I removed the "masterdebater" quote - it is my belief that this page is for meaninful quotes, not derogatory jokes...

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 * It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
 * Joseph Joubert


 * Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
 * Jonathan Swift


 * Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
 * Louis Brandeis


 * The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
 * Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone


 * Debate is the death of conversation.
 * Emil Ludwig


 * He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
 * Michel de Montaigne


 * A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
 * Voltaire


 * Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
 * Thomas Fuller


 * People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
 * Gilbert K. Chesterton


 * The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
 * Jawaharlal Nehru


 * Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
 * Richard Whately


 * When much dispute has past, We find our tenets just the same as last.
 * Alexander Pope