Disagreement Quotes

The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. . . .There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across the sites of these, reduced to a glassy slag during the ultimate disagreement.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

~ Criss Jami

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

~ Colin Quinn

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

~ Criss Jami

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.

~ J.s.b. Morse

Argument need not be heated, it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

~ J. Sidlow Baxter

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

~ George Saunders

How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man's confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused of not loving enough by human standards - which should be its motivation to love more - however that is, in many cases, because its focus is and should also be to love on levels of eternal significance. This is the level of love that will inevitably go unnoticed by those who do not believe in eternity.

~ Criss Jami

...Bad behavior is bipartisan, but the Left seems to have an instinct for violence. This makes perfect sense for a worldview with revolutionary underpinnings....But yet, they claim oppression due to their inability to control the words and minds of others. That is why the Left is a threat to both freedom and democracy: Because at the end of the day, they don't really believe in either.

~ Jonathon Von Maren

Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.

~ Jack London

If I do not agree with something or do not like something, it will be wrong to presume that I hate it. Presuming disagreement or dislike to be the same as hatred is stifling engagement. Disengagement leads to otherness, which leads to fear, which in turn leads to real hatred. Either we tolerate disagreement and dislike or we have to tolerate real hatred. The intolerance of disagreement is filling civil society lexicon with phobias each of which is leading to a disconnect, to another closed door. It may sound odd but only tolerance of disagreement demolishes walls. Doors and windows, open or closed, presume that there exists a wall, a wall created by intolerance. And doors and windows, if they exist, are closed too easily, at the slightest of pretexts.

~ R. N. Prasher

The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the pursuit of selfish and individual goals. Disagreements then become a battle between conflicting interests, rather than a search for a mutually satisfying resolution.

~ Matthew Kelly

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

~ Jonathan Swift

As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

~ Norton Juster

When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others’ heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.

~ Carla L. Rueckert

It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is ‘not me’ in order to have a ‘me’. What we like has no meaning unless we know what we don’t like. Our yes has no meaning if we never say no. My chosen profession has no passion if ‘just anyone would do’. Our opinions and thoughts mean very little if there is nothing we disagree with.

~ Henry Cloud

Couples with children may argue more, the author suggests, because children are a reminder of just how crucial our choices are.

~ Jennifer Senior

It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

~ Henry Kimsey-House

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

~ George R.r. Martin

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

~ Vic Snyder