Disagreement Quotes

Most popular disagreement quotes

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - Horace Mann quote.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

flexible thinking

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. - Barry Goldwater quote.
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

conversation

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton quote.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

opinions

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. - E. B. White quote.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

negotiation

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree.  For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. - Charles Baudelaire quote.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree.  For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Agreement is made more precious by disagreement. - Publilius Syrus quote.
Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. - André Gide quote.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
André Gide Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

authors

Don't think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you.  It will be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
The point I wish to make in this.  You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union. - Bill Clinton quote.
The point I wish to make in this.  You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.
To be agreeable while disagreeing—that's an art. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
To be agreeable while disagreeing—that's an art.
If you are threatened or offended by people disagreeing, challenging or even ridiculing your faith, your faith can't be that strong.

faith

The beginning of thought is in disagreement—not only with others but also with ourselves. - Eric Hoffer quote.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement—not only with others but also with ourselves.
I like disagreement, because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.
Men are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads. - Michel de Montaigne quote.
Men are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

mankind

Writers should provoke disagreement. - V. S. Naipaul quote.
Writers should provoke disagreement.
Almost all those caught making a logical fallacy interpret it as a "disagreement." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote.
Almost all those caught making a logical fallacy interpret it as a "disagreement."
If someone finds fault with everything you say or do, ignore. But there is information from those who differ on the occasion.