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Bertrand Russell quotesThe most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotesEvery real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
William Hazlitt quotesWhen a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Virginia Woolf quotesWhen a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
Thomas Carlyle quotesThe dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.