Arguing Quotes

• What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Memories
  • Creativity
  • Ability

• In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

  

  Dan Barker
  • People
  • Religion
  • Stubborn

• The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no party has a right to compel him to contribute to the support of doctrines, which do not meet his approbation. The rate-payer may as reasonably argue, that no one is justified in forcing him to subscribe towards the maintenance of persons, whom he does not consider deserving of relief.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Support
  • Party
  • Charity

• Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mistake
  • Weakness
  • Productivity

• DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Magic
  • Arguing

• We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

  

  William Penn
  • Needs
  • Christ
  • Arguing

• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • World
  • Soul

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