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Quotes About Disagreement

Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them.
~ Scott Adams
Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them. When
~ Scott Adams
Asshole behaviors: Changing the subject to him/herself Dominating conversation Bragging Cheating, lying Disagreeing with any suggestion, no matter how trivial Using honesty as a justification for cruelty Withholding simple favors out of some warped sense of social justice Abandoning the rules of civil behavior, such as saying hello or making eye contact
~ Scott Adams
She is arguing the
~ Scott Turow
He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
~ Scott Westerfeld
No one is going to know about this, or should I be more explicit?" "Yes," she replied sharply. "I am brilliantly cunning and stupidly dense at the same time.Do continue treating me like a child." "Your sarcasm is uncalled-for." "I disagree.Actually,I will probably disagree with you henceforth whether I agree with you or not! I can behave like a child if you insist on treating me like one.
~ Johanna Lindsey
There can be no truce between science and religion.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."
~ John Bunyan
Politics disabuses a person of the notion that you can please everybody. It is an inescapable fact that people will always have different opinions, and some people are going to disagree. Sooner or later, a person constructs his or her own "platform" and stands on it, regardless of what others think, say, or do. It is also true that some people delight in another person's demise.
~ John David Ashcroft
Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
~ John Deacon
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.
~ Ogden Nash
I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.
~ Edward Gibbon
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
~ Edward Gibbon
Once we succumb to the temptations of censoring ideas with which we disagree, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.
~ Edward Kennedy
However, every time we agreed on a deal, the GP insisted on making yet another change in his favor. After we had agreed to some of these, it became apparent that they were endless. I terminated negotiations.
~ Edward O. Thorp
This is what we should do in a disagreement: play half the time for the other side, half the time for our own. It is not a question of sacrificing principles; this is the only way to see the whole.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Even with the best of conscious intentions, we may provoke a nasty clash. But if we can support the other person and express our disapproval tenderly, with respect, it will help him or her to see more clearly.
~ Eknath Easwaran
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard
If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard
If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Too much agreement kills the chat.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Too much agreement kills chat.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Most of those who came were women, and I was now much criticized, now much praised by opposing groups. At first I was frightened, but Mariarosa interceded with authority and I discovered in myself an unsuspected capacity to summarize disagreement and agreement, choosing in the meantime a role as mediator. I was good at saying in a convincing way: That isn't exactly what I meant.
~ Elena Ferrante