Discussion Quotes

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

I think my faith as a Muslim is very important. One of the core values is that you are always trying to build consensus. So when it comes to figuring out if something is permissible or not in Islam, it's usually a discussion, and people have to come to a consensus in order for something to be approved.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Sometimes your advice prevails; sometimes it doesn’t prevail. It’s not a matter of winning or losing.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion.

It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.

I dare anyone to debate me on things.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.

The topic is too big, there's too many people who live with it, and too many moving pieces for anyone to do a definitive statement on what depression is like for everyone. 'Depression Quest's' goal was to be a basic introduction to the concept and to get the conversation started.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

Every man in it is a great man—an orator, a critic, a statesman, and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities. The consequence is that business is drawn and spun out to immeasurable length.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

Negotiations take time.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.