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 w: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