Unproductive Discussion Quotes

They talk most who have the least to say.

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.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone. There were too many people talking..

The White House described the talks as “frank” which is diplomatic language for the fact that the talks went badly.

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

It is easier to come to a meeting provided with rotten eggs than with sound arguments

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.