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"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal." - Marilyn Ferguson. |
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand." - Colin Powell. |
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance." - Robert Quillen. |
"Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion." - Marilyn vos Savant. |
"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about." - Miguel de Unamuno. |
"People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument." - Will Rogers. |
"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic." - William E. Gladstone. |
"Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side." - Baltasar Gracian. |
"I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it." - Alain de Botton. |
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo da Vinci. |
"Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t?" - L.J. Smith, Nightfall. |
"[T]he canons of narrative art in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter" - J.R.R. Tolkien (letter of June 1958). |
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman. |
"People's opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration." - Bertrand Russell. |
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." - Emo Philips. |
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