Daisy Bates Quotes

Why argue about things you can't prove?

Not all the vital questions have been settled.

In carefully scrutinizing the affairs of the past, we find that there are many different opinions about them, and that there are some things that are quite unclear. It is better to regard such things as unknowable.

I had a feeling there would be mixed reactions.

Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

What I love is getting polarized opinions.

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

Not many people agree with what I do.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

So many men, so many opinions.

Life itself is controversy.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

It is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

No one is served by continued uncertainty and fractious debate.

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.