Discussion Quotes

“My chair was nearest to the fireIn every companyThat talked of love or politics,Ere Time transfigured me.”

“Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.”

“The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.”

“I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members. Nothing can justify this example but the innocence of their intentions and ignorance of the value of public discussions. I have no doubt that all their other measures will be good and wise. It is really an assembly of demigods.”

“I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.”

“The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.”

“Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.”

“Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!”

“One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.”

“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”