The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."
(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)
Tags: science theories acceptance opportunism dispute haldane self-contradiction
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie CollinsTags: intelligence empowerment men women self-control wit control argument superiority dispute
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
Giordano BrunoTags: truth opinion argument dispute
Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.
Lemony SnicketTags: dispute
If enemy offers you two options,
surprise him with your third one,
end the feud with the fourth one.
I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.
Michel de MontaigneTags: reason victory pleasure weakness open-mind force pride argument ardor dispute adversary changed-mind
When two wise men are blaming one another,
then time has come for you to be the third one.
Tags: wisdom different chance enemy dispute new-one
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
Wilkie CollinsTags: empowerment men women wit argument superiority dispute
The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge
Tags: law business chapter lawyers dispute attorneys dissolution legal business-start-up business-advice
He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: disagreement heat thoughts debate ice dispute arguement
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