William Chillingworth Quotes

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

William Chillingworth

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• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
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• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
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• I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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  • Just
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• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Idea
  • Passionate
  • Cinema

• There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Argument

• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Argument

• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Evil
  • Worst
  • Passionate

• I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Why
  • Want
  • Argument

• I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Myself
  • More
  • Passionate

• I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Swimming
  • Passionate

• Do what you're passionate about.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • You
  • Passionate
  • About

• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Taken
  • Just
  • Argument

• I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Argument

• History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • History
  • Moral
  • Argument

• A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Up
  • Society
  • Pain

• Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
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• I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Political
  • Argument
  • Slave

• You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Problem
  • Idea
  • Passionate

• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  

  Gary Numan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

  

  Bonaventure
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Approach

• Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

  

  William Chillingworth
  • Argument
  • Passionate
  • Assertion