“Many argue; not many converse.”
“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”
“Many can argue that reality is as it is, but my experience is that the opposite is exactly true. Reality is ours for the making.”
“When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.”
“I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.”
“Too many people get away with truly awful ‘reasoning’, not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.”