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“It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate—in its original sense of “to consider something, to deliberate”—is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, I Don't Know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance

“I don't debate where there is no debate. I'm smart. You're stupid. Debate over.”
― J'son M. Lee

“Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You’ll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Excluding certain ideas and thoughts, calling them hate speech, is an important piece in the progressive movement’s puzzle. If you can’t win an argument logically, demonize your opponent, make him out to be a bad person and all of a sudden the ideas he stands for become bad as well.”
― Chris Sardegna

“Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital It: 100 Q&as

“Some things are compelling, but not convincing; some things are convincing, but not compelling.”
― Clifford Cohen

“A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise that debateis ridiculous....Many people shrink from arguments over facts because facts are tedious, because they require a formal familiarity with the subject under discussion, and because they can be ideologically dislocative. Many Liberals accept their opinions, ideas, and evaluations as others accept revealed truths.”
― William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism

“It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A bridge-like CIO has the mind to think via the multidimensional lens, the gut to innovate fearlessly; the strategy to lead wisely and the skill to move progressively.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital It: 100 Q&as