Alexander Pope Quotes

I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence.

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

I kinda see everyone as competition.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

I don't have any concerns fighting a teammate. It's a sport. To me, it doesn't really mean anything.

I like to take on athletes who have issues with me.

Honestly, I want to wrestle everybody.

I'm more of a purist competitor, and I enjoy the fighting aspect of it, but people enjoy my personality, and they enjoy that I tell the truth.

I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.

There was an interview that I actually listened to with John Cena where he says that he is an elite-level athlete - he is elite, and he needs to make people elite whenever he goes up against them - but I was like, gosh, as much as I hate to give him credit where credit is due, it is exactly right.

I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.

I'm here to compete and to keep beating people up.

Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.

It's not a lie that I'm a stronger guy than Pau. There's nothing wrong with that.

Ball don't lie!

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?