Quotes About Disagreement

Lo, there is much hatred in the streets, The wise says, "Yes," the fool says, "No," The ignorant is satisfied.

I got into an argument with my girlfriend inside a tent. A tent is not a good place for an argument. I tried to walk out on her and had to slam the flap.

Was it wrong to say something no one believed, even if it was right? Did he have to just sit there and take it when no one agreed with him?

We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

Most philosophers cannot last in a marriage because they cannot use the agree-to-disagree method before something that is totally out of their morals.

The atheist has got completely different views from the theist, but each one of them is regarding their opponent as the foolish one.

The disagreement is great in many situations, if supported by concrete evidence. Otherwise, it will be classified as pure fanaticism.

War between religions and science will never end; because they speak difference languages. There is a lack of communication between them.

You can only quarrel with someone whom you share almost everything in common or a similar person.

A major part of our inquiry, then, must be to look at the emerging Christian movement and to ask: what caused it? Even if our eyewitnesses disagree in detail, something must have happened.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.

No, I don't agree. Your home with Suyin would be quiet and peaceful and it would bore you out of your gourd.

You need that disagreement, we all do, so that we can realize that the world isn't smooth and even, not everyone agrees with everyone else. You need a window into another world to work out what you think of your own.

The committee was divided, but it was divided 8–1, with the dissenter appointed by the Reagan White House.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

Yeah, sis, but you can't punch a teacher." "I respectfully disagree with your hypothesis, but will test it for you anyway," she said loftily.

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

Her reason partly agreed, her instinct wholly rebelled.