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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Agatha Christie1890–1976The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928), Hercule Poirot
- Debate
I don’t care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings1818–1885Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
- Comedy
It’s my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985), As “Trudy”
- Comedy
Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931Sand and Foam (1926)
Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Debate
Those whose conduct gives room for talk
Are always the first to attack their neighbors.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664)
Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 56e
- Advice
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Aristotle384–322 BCRhetoric, Book II, 1395b.27
- Education
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
- Debate
It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Adventurer, # 84 (25 August 1753)
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, “Verify your quotations.”
Winston Churchill1874–1965The Second World War, Volume IV: The Hinge of Fate (1951)
- Advice
- Quotations
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848Curiosities of Literature (1791–1834), Quotation.
- Quotations
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989The Unnamable (1954)
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow1908–1965On receiving the “Family of Man” Award (1964)
- Computers
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
Pericles494–429 BCFuneral Oration, in Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.40 (tr. Richard Crawley)
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