Quotes About Disagreement

I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own. The bitterness that has been brought about by arguments on public questions is proverbial. Lovers have been parted by bitter quarrels on theories of pacificism or militarism; and when an argument upon an abstract question engages opponents they often desert the main line of arguments in order to abuse each other.

Socrates: what will happen to my children if I do what my friends are suggesting? Hume: you can't always believe what other people tell you. Descartes: when there's so much disagreement between the authorities, what can we do but go back to basics and start again?

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

I came not to send peace, but a sword.

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

Doubtful disputations.

Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.

"Nobody asked you, sir," she said.

Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn't tolerance but condescension.

Give priests power and they soon start persecuting anyone who disagrees with them.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people in the world were dropouts - not that I'm pro-dropping out.

I've worked in two public school districts, Minneapolis and Baltimore, one as a senior leader. And while we might not always have agreed with the union, and we might have had deep differences, they came to the table.

In public service, not everybody's always going to agree.

If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.

Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

I know the pundits don't agree with me.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

We obviously don't like the idea of a wall. It's not a friendly gesture. And my own personal opinion is that it might not even work for the purposes that it's meant to work for.

Conflict is the pursuit of truth.