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A great many of those who ‘debunk’ traditional…values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man
- Debate
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain1835–1910
If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Success
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix1942–1970
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)
- Quotations
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Debate
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013From an interview for Italian television (RAI) (10 March 1986)
- Debate
A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien
- Quotations
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato429–349 BC
A man only curses because he doesn’t know the words to express what is on his mind.
Malcolm X1925–1965
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.
Mel Brooksborn 1926
- Comedy