People need to learn the art of making an argument. Often there is no right or wrong. It's just your opinion vs someone else's opinion. How you deliver that opinion could make the difference between o...
[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
In life, toughness and roughness go together.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.
There is nothing wrong with being wrong.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Weakness on both sides is as we know the motto of all quarrels.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
Is it me you're describing, or yourself?
No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.
When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also
Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.
We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
Arguments should always be held in private. Audiences inflate the ego.
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better. This is why discussion around the...