Quotes About Agreement Disagreement

#1. We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side.

Marilynne Robinson

#2. Do Christians in fact eagerly long for Christ's return? The more Christians are caught up in enjoying the good things of this life, and the more they neglect genuine Christian fellowship and their personal relationship with Christ, the less they will long for his return.

Wayne A. Grudem

#3. If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good.
Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.

Hosea Ballou

#4. Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

John Green

#5. If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

Alfred P. Sloan

#6. Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.

Publilius Syrus

#7. It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

Paul Harris

#8. Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#9. You can't just change me and then leave. You can't.

John Green

#10. 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

#11. I am not looking for intelligent disagreement any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

Ayn Rand

#12. Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

William James

#13. The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. Agreement on disagreement is at least an agreement.

Ben Tolosa

#15. There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

E.B. White

#16. 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

#17. One can expect an agreement between philosophers sooner than between clocks.

Seneca.

#18. Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

Robert Musil

#19. 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

#20. Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny ... There's no time for anything to develop.

Ron Shock

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.

Tina Fey

#23. The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

Juan Enriquez

#24. I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

Trent Reznor

#25. 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

#26. No woman truly wants independence. She wants the freedom to choose her own master. This is also what men want. The origin of all human conflict is, possibly, disagreement about who ought and ought not to be one's master. The origin of all human happiness is, maybe, mutual agreement on the subject.

Gina Wohlsdorf

#27. Given that the Taliban is a Pashtun movement, the tendency of the Pashtun man to emphasize his individuality through disagreement rather than agreement will come to the fore after the disappearance of the already 'loose' authority of Mullah Omar.

Khaled Ahmed

#28. You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.

Mortimer J. Adler

#29. I was a complete ass." -Nate

"Ah. You and I finally agree." -Reggie

J. Kowallis

#30. I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

D.R. Silva

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana