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The best defense against logic is ignorance.
Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.
Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.
Do not respond to these insults, they will not increase your abilities. You will tire yourself needlessly.
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and let their words be a tiny drop in the infinite ocean of your peaceful silence.
Indignation is often the best defense.
If ever a fool utters all kinds of insults against you,
The best bet is to not respond at all.
You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.
My comebacks aren't nearly as sharp as my shiv. Come inside and I'll show you.
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.
If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism.
Silence is the best response to a fool ...
Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.
You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.
I'm not going to be responding to [Donald Trump].
What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.
You are luckier to be wisely rebuked than forced to hear the songs of fools,
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.
That calls for a witty comeback.
"Whatever," I say.
Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness.
Retaliation is a dog chasing its tail
I often play a move I know how to refute.
I didn't answer her. All I could have said was I don't know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.
Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.
Silence is an arguement hard to refute
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Truth is its own defense.
An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology
Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you'd been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later.
I am not denying anything I did not say.
You can't win an argument with an argument.
Ignorance is not a suitable defense
You surely remember your past
when you rebuke me in honesty.
Obviously, there's no possible rebuttal to a suggestion that an unknown variable is producing some result because the phrase itself is as unhelpful as a politician's election promise.
I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.
One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.
(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)
You create what you defend against.
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.
To respond is positive, to react is negative.
Every one has the right to refute any opinion. But no one has the right to prevent its expression.
His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.
If someone criticizes me, I strike back.
I see that you are highly defensive." ...
Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
No one can be compared with you and so no one can refute this
Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not.
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
Whatever the attitude, so is the response.
Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.
You're not going to answer me? Or do I need to repeat myself for a third time? It's okay. I like to hear myself talk.
Hypocrite sneers.
Creativity is, in many respects, a response.
Always give response rather than reaction".
If you want a better answer, krasivyy, ask a better question. - Koldan Vasin
If some one tells you that so and so speaks ill of you, do not defend yourself against what he says, but answer, 'He did not know my other faults, or he would not have mentioned these alone.' It
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
Listen. Don't explain or justify.
Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
Sometimes are responses are entirely misdirected, misallocated and misapplied; in other words it's all reflex and nothing of reflection.
How unconvincing. Try again.
You never answer a question nobody does.
Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.
About two hours afterwards Gethryn discovered a suitable retort, but, coming to the conclusion that better late than never does not apply to repartees, refrained from speaking it.
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.
I will not engage in verbal controversy with the sceptic, because long experience has taught me that the sceptic's ultimate skepticism is about the use of his own words and the reliability of his own intelligence.
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Refuting a merely contentious argument - a description which applies to the arguments both of Melissus and of Parmenides: their premisses are false and their conclusions do not follow.
Include yourself in any reproof.
If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'
I like arguments.
Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.
You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of people who pigheadly contradict everything I say.
Do not apologize. Offer sarcasm.
Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
We all think we're retaliating," I say. "That's the nature of conflict. We all think our actions are justified by someone else's actions. But actually, we're responsible for what we do.
You can't make people respond.
silence is the most intolerable of answers.
Lesson number one: defensiveness is defeat. Never defend yourself.
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.