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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks…
Ben Jonson1572–1637Timber: or Discoveries
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert1754–1824The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
- Debate
Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
Charlie Kaufmanborn 1958
Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address to ANPA
- Debate
He wrapped himself in quotations⁠—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Finest Story in the World (1893).
- Quotations
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Speech, quoted in The Times (February 15, 1923).
- Writing
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
- Debate
I don’t like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what’s even worse, of being quoted exactly.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999“Kubrick on Barry Lyndon: An interview with Michel Ciment” (1982)
- Quotations
He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
LLaozi580–501 BCTao Te Ching, Ch. 56
- Knowledge
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
CLChristopher Lasch1932–1994
- Debate
In countries and epochs in which communication is impeded, soon all other liberties wither; discussion dies by inanition, ignorance of the opinion of others becomes rampant, imposed opinions triumph.
Primo Levi1919–1987The Drowned and the Saved (1986)
- Debate
- Liberty
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
The absent are easily refuted.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Debate
If you would read a man’s disposition, see him game; you will then learn more of him in one hour, than in seven years’ conversation.
RLRichard Lingard1630–1670Often credited to Plato