Quotes About Agreement

Not simply by following an author's arguments, but only by meeting them as well, can the reader ultimately reach significant agreement or disagreement with his author.

RULE 9. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO SAY, WITH REASONABLE CERTAINTY, "I UNDERSTAND," BEFORE YOU CAN SAY ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING THINGS: "I AGREE," OR "I DISAGREE," OR "I SUSPEND JUDGMENT.

Applying the distinction between real knowledge and mere opinion to himself as well as to the author. Thus the reader must do more than make judgments of agreement or disagreement. He must give reasons for them.

In the first case, we may have obtained information, but we may not have increased our understanding. If the book is completely intelligible from cover to cover, then the author and the reader are like two minds with the same frame. The symbols on the page simply express the common understanding that the reader and writer shared before they met.

If you have not been able to show that the author is uninformed, misinformed, or illogical on relevant matters, you simply cannot disagree. You must agree. You cannot say, as so many students and others do, "I find nothing wrong with your premises, and no errors in reasoning, but I don't agree with your conclusions." All you can possibly mean by saying something like that is that you do not like the conclusions. You

To agree is just as much an exercise of critical judgment on your part as to disagree. You can be just as wrong in agreeing as in disagreeing. To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, I understand, before you can say any one of the following things: I agree, or I disagree, or I suspend Judgment.

Se o livro lhe é perfeitamente inteligível - do começo ao fim -, então o autor e você são como mentes fabricadas a partir do mesmo molde. Os símbolos impressos seriam meras expressões do entendimento que já lhes era comum antes mesmo de vocês se conhecerem.

We die...... We die together. That's the deal.

El Patrón said these foods were his favorites, and Matt decided they were his favorites too.

It is not a complex problem to appear nice to people! You identify the most popular targets in each of your classes, learn what they value about themselves, and give them a minimum of three relevant compliments each week. So long as they think you are agreeable, others will follow their lead." It hadn't occurred to me that there was an answer to my question, complete presumably with regularly tended checklists.

I hadn't any business agreeing to be with someone who told me in all sincerity that I was his only hope of happiness in the world, at least not until he'd sorted his own head out and diversified.

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

A gentleman's agreement cannot be broken because it breaks the person who has signed it.

Wise men think and speak alike.

Leandro laughed to himself. 'The truth? You and I know such a thing doesn't exist. The truth is an agreement that allows innocent people not to have to cope with reality.

In the end Alicia had accepted that heavy piece as she done with so many of Leandro's offerings, in a tacit agreement of submission and pretense, where the unmentionable was sealed with a cold smile of politeness and a veil of silence

That will be the motto on which we'll build our coexistence: Whatever I say.

I hugged her for the last time and looked into her eyes. On the way we had agreed there would be no farewells, no solemn words, no promises to fulfill.

La verdad es un acuerdo que permite que los inocentes no tengan que convivir con la realidad. —No

I'll see you tomorrow, then, around seven,' concluded Clara. 'Do you know the address?

Simios es lo que llegan a las aulas. Darwin era un soñador, se lo aseguro. Ni evolución ni niño muerto. Por cada uno que razona, tengo que lidiar con nueve orangutanes. Nos limitamos a asentir

Un contrato no consiste en decir lo que pretendes, sino en pretender lo que dices. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (Médico, poeta y humorista, 1809-1894)

Me too," Hannah said.