Counterarguments Quotes:

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

- Andrei Sakharov

topic: Wisdom, Ideas, Profound, Counterarguments

All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren't challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don't see the counterarguments.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Blessing, Echoes, Views, Counterarguments

It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Art, Philosophy, Criticism, Clauses, Counterarguments

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

topic: Depressing, Gone, Fiction, Counterarguments

I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he's in love. For example, through song "GG BE," I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived by a woman (the song also contains the woman's counterargument).

- Seungri

source: Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com

topic: Song, Men, Feelings, Counterarguments, Being Deceived