(411 quotes found)
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves”
Abraham J. Heschel
“Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with”
George Carlin
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way”
Bertrand Russell
“A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death”
Robert Maynard Hutchins
“It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.”
Samuel Butler
“When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless”
John Henry Newman
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.”
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.”
“... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.”
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