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"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
George Bernard Shaw
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
George Bernard Shaw
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
Harry Truman
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."
Henry Kissinger
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
Jeseph Joubert
"The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right."
Jill Ruckleshaus
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
Josh Billings
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
Laurence Peter
"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 Thatcher
"I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job."
Margaret Thatcher
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
Oscar Wilde
"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."
Plato
"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."
Richard Nixon
"The argument is at an end."
Saint Augustine
"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."
Samuel Goldwyn
"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle."
Thomas Jefferson
"Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?"
Wayne Dyer
"Arguing is really saying, "If you were really more like me, then I could like you better.""
Wayne Dyer
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