There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

A woman has reached reaal women's-lib status when she is the one who forgers the wedding Aniversary

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

A language is like living skin itself.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.