Evan Davis Quotes

Debate is so much better than denial.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

If you don't accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things.

I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

We can calm down our argument a little so that we can learn what it is that we are actually arguing about.

I don't mind have an uncomfortable conversation if those uncomfortable conversations can lead to a bigger dialogue and help us get to a better understanding of whatever it is we are discussing.

I don't have all the answers. I'm just supposed to present what I think is an issue and have dialogue start.

I wouldn't want to debate me every day.

At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

I would never say don't have an argument.

Come now. let us reason together.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.