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Quotes About Disagreement

Oh, you're so wrong, Henry," she said. "In fact, it's only just begun.
~ Kerstin Gier
If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. Hang out with, and learn from people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people who will disagree with you.
~ Kevin Kelly
Your ideal partner is not someone you never disagree with but someone you are glad to disagree with.
~ Kevin Kelly
When did things go wrong? Probably already at the kick-off meeting. Some of the project members didn't pay attention. Others didn't understand the point. Worse, some disagreed and were already planning their coding standard rebellion. Finally, some got the point and agreed but, when the pressure in the project got too high, they had to let something go.
~ Kevlin Henney
Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.
~ Kohta Hirano
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
~ Krista Tippett
No," Kelsey said as if it were the
~ Kristan Higgins
Nessa] didn't know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely wrote, "Thank you, anyway, kind sir, but I am not going to marry you.
~ Kristiana Gregory
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
~ Carl Sandburg
Seeing disagreement as disloyalty is another hallmark of demagogues, dictators, and strong-arm leaders.
~ Carol Tavris
There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
God does not take sides in American politics, and in America disagreement with the policies of the government is not evidence of lack of patriotism.
~ George Mitchell
Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.'...'Speaking for the grotesques, I'll have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah life is so full of possibilities.
~ George R.R. Martin
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
~ Gerald Durrell
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
~ Spanish proverb
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.
~ S. L. Clemens
Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.
~ William Hazlitt
Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.
~ Carl Rose
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
~ Muriel Spark
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
~ Dean Acheson
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
~ John Locke
opinions, and convictions when they do not mirror what I believe.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
And we don't hit people when they say stupid things. Because they're allowed to, it's not against the law. People can be as stupid as they want, and we just ignore them. We can say, 'You're wrong,' or maybe, 'You're an idiot,' but that's it. We don't hit 'em, we just ignore 'em. Right?
~ J.D. Robb