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Quotes About Disagreement

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
~ Jascha Heifetz
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
~ Bertrand Russell
A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.
~ Tana French, Faithful Place
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
~ Alexander Pope
The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
~ Karl Popper
In an argument, you try to win over the other creature. You get your opponent to agree on a solution, or to make a choice. While both a fight and an argument start with a disagreement, only an argument can make both sides happy. How? By reaching an agreement that benefits both of you. In the best kind of argument, both sides think they won.
~ Jay Heinrichs
I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!
~ Jean Webster
I always feel that a man and a woman, who do not like the same films, will eventually divorce.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Reputable scholars might have denied its authenticity, but there are always other scholars who disagree--and people will believe what they want to believe, never mind the evidence. If there is anything life has taught me, it is that there is no idea so absurd that someone will not accept it as truth, and no action so bizarre that it will not be justified in the eyes of a true believer.
~ Elizabeth Peters
I knocked one of Tony's elbows out from under him so that his chin splashed into his coffee cup, and that ended that discussion.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Nay!" he shouted out loud
~ Elizabeth Rose
There is a certain unbending rigidity about Augustine that offers little compassion to anyone with whom he disagrees. Cadfael was never going to surrender his private reservations about any reputed saint who could describe humankind as a mass of corruption and sin proceeding inevitably towards death, or one who could look upon the world, for all its imperfections, and find it irredeemably evil.
~ Ellis Peters
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
~ Alfred Korzybski
When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said, I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red; But if two women disagree, with very little noise, It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
~ Alice Duer Miller
proclaimed a predictably democratic unwillingness to be disagreed with, and used that unwillingness to pull down the entire house.
~ Allen C. Guelzo
Hey," Hale snapped. "We all agreed that that monkey seemed perfectly well trained at the time.
~ Ally Carter
Can't talk now. Someone on the internet is wrong.
~ Alyssa Brugman
Si las palabras tienen una memoria similar, no hay duda de que la palabra «no» es la que más cadáveres tiene en su activo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.
~ Dick Cheney
President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say... 'We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We're going to be a neutral party to everyone.' I think that's negotiating from weakness.
~ James Lankford
And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.
~ Edie Brickell
Accusations like conspiracy theories, words like disinformation and misinformation, these aren't words that are meant to guide you as to how much trust you should place in the story. These are weapons used to destroy opposition and you already know that when it comes to debate, disagreement or even election outcomes.
~ Will Cain
It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper.
~ Charlie Sykes