CONTROVERSY

Related Subjects: Argument, Cause, Quarrels

1. Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.—TRYON EDWARDS
   

2. The evils of controversy are transitory, while its benefits are permanent.—ROBERT HALL
   

3. There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies; his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds more firmly established. In logic they teach that contraries laid together more evidently appear; and controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth more true.—MILTON
   

4. Controversy is wretched when it is only an attempt to prove another wrong. Religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right—a spirit in which no man gets at truth.—F. W. ROBERTSON