DISCUSSION

Related Subjects: Argument, Conversation

1. Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.—GEORGE CAMPBELL
   

2. The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.—JOUBERT, Pensees
   

3. Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.—MACAULAY, Southey's Colloquies
   

4. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.—J. S. MILL
   

5. All bitter feelings are avoided, or at least greatly reduced by prompt, face-to-face discussion.—WALTER B. PITKIN
   

6. Whosoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with truth.—THOMAS WATSON

7. He that is not open to convic­tion, is not qualified for discussion.—RICHARD WHATELY