Top 100 Quotes About Disagreement
#1. As a result, your subconscious mind will do its best to keep you from a successful marriage, because you have a disagreement between your consciousness and sub consciousness
Sunday Adelaja
#2. The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes.
Austan Goolsbee
#3. I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.
Peter Baynham
#4. Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.
Jo Goodman
#5. I realize that definitions spark controversy and disagreement, but I'm okay with that. I'd rather we debate the meaning of words that are important to us than not discuss them at all.
Brene Brown
#6. Usually, after a disagreement, they suggested i read this or that, often Marx, Lenin, or Engels. I preferred Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, or Fidel, but i ended up having to get into Marx and Lenin just to understand a lot of the speeches and stuff Huey Newton was putting out.
Assata Shakur
#7. It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.
Freeman Dyson
#8. Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do.
Thomas Gilovich
#9. Eye blocking is a very powerful display of consternation, disbelief, or disagreement.
Joe Navarro
#10. I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#11. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
Francis Chan
#12. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.
Steve Volk
#13. It's so pathetic, the tough-guy posturing, but so sinister, because, to put it plainly, that's how black men die. Insecure, pee-pants white men assume that any disagreement is a life-threatening situation.
Lindy West
#14. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
Salman Rushdie
#15. The writers of religious scriptures and texts would have done humanity a grand service if they would have used just one sentence, in one of the pages out of the thousands, to support respectful and peaceful disagreement.
Steve Maraboli
#16. The fake giggle is not that bad."
My friend grunted in disagreement. "It sounds like Miss Piggy has a machine gun stuck in her throat.
Samantha Young
#17. If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
Al-Ghazali
#18. To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.
Ray Dalio
#19. When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
Colin Powell
#20. It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.
Muhammad Al-Bukhari
#21. Clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
David Mitchell
#22. If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable.
Christopher Hitchens
#23. 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
#24. I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And it was a scene that, when we were shooting it, we knew that it wasn't working. We knew there was a disagreement between the actor and director. So, we went back.
Melissa Leo
#25. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.
Arlen Specter
#27. One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.
Maureen Corrigan
#28. We are all born with infinite wisdom at our fingertips. All you have to do is approach every disagreement, debate, and alternative view of your core beliefs with the sincere and soul honest desire of being proved partially or completely incorrect
Carl Henegan
#29. 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
#30. The widest point of disagreement between two intelligent people who can talk to each other is where there is the most to be learned.
Brett Ashton
#31. 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
#32. Sometimes opinions should kept to ones self, but not in appropriate situations. Be the judge of the appropriate situation, and be prepared for backfire. Moral of the story; if everyone doesn't agree, then prepare for them to lash out in disagreement.
Liam McGrath
#33. At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
Victoria Osteen
#34. The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.
Brian Tracy
#35. I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching of the Roman Congregations is about what I consider to be their fundamentally flawed premise of the objectively disordered nature of the inclination.
James Alison
#36. The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.
Todd Tiahrt
#37. Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.
Ben Carson
#38. Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
Alfred Korzybski
#39. Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
Donald L. Carcieri
#40. Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
James Surowiecki
#41. In every disagreement in your marriage, remember that there is not a winner and a loser. You are partners in everything, so you will either win together or lose together. Always work together to find a solution.
Dave Willis
#42. There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.
Timothy Noah
#43. Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.
John S. Tanner
#45. Barack Obama and I have an honest disagreement on the issue of abortion.
Bob Casey Jr.
#46. Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
Noreena Hertz
#47. There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.
Marianne Williamson
#48. Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
Khalil Gibran
#49. The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
Karl Popper
#50. I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.
Scott McCallum
#51. Dave brought a knife and a gun to a comedy show. Because of a disagreement about whether or not comedy clubs are safe for women. Because the way people talk onstage has no bearing on how they behave in real life. It's
Lindy West
#52. We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality.
Ugo Cavallero
#53. I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.
Sam Hunt
#54. More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.
Peter Dicken
#55. Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.
Jerry Spinelli
#56. Have I lost Emma entirely? Did I throw away everything I ever wanted with one
disagreement?
Anna Banks
#57. When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.
Matthew Kelly
#58. I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really quiet and shy, but maybe people see me, and they don't want to step out of line, or equate disagreement with stepping out of line with a writer they like.
Roxane Gay
#59. He (The warden) was painfully afraid of a disagreement with any person in any subject ... he felt horror at the thought of being made the subject of common gossip and public criticism.
Anthony Trollope
#60. I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
Clifford Geertz
#61. Bonnie and Jerry told me they never run away fro disagreements. They face each one head-on. "By holding it in, you'll begin to slowly form a negative opinion of each other," Bonnie reasoned, "which means you can't work out what the disagreement is.
Fawn Weaver
#62. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#63. Has a disagreement with an employer ever led to dismemberment or disemboweling?
Heidi Schulz
#64. Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.
Thomas Kinkade
#65. Some friendships fade. Others dissolve under stress or disagreement. Still other friends just leave. Those that stick, however, are almost irreplaceable; and the sadness of long life is losing friends.
Hugh Hewitt
#66. Believe this truth, that we are fellow members of the body of Christ and that God loves each of us, could serve to diffuse a lot of hostility and disagreement among fellow believers. I am grateful that God taught me this lesson early in my training to be a Navigator staff member.
Jerry Bridges
#67. Just the other day I witnessed a disagreement between a waiter and a customer over whether the coffee he served her was a cappuccino or a latte.
Gloria Furman
#68. Most Christians and Muslims believe in a heaven and a hell, though there's a lot of disagreement within both religions over what, exactly, will get you into one afterlife or the other.
John Green
#69. This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.
Kirsten Powers
#70. When a group of intelligent people come together to talk about issues that matter, it is both natural and productive for disagreement to occur. Resolving those issues is what makes a meeting productive, engaging, even fun.
Patrick Lencioni
#71. Blood hell, what happened to you?" - Dante
The dark wisard and I had a mild disagreement." -Viper
What sort of disagreement?" -Dante
I thought he should be dead and he disagreed." -Viper
Alexandra Ivy
#72. I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common ground. That's good.
Roxane Gay
#73. It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage.
Julian Fellowes
#74. If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.
William Ramsay
#75. But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement.
Lindy Boggs
#76. Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.
Jonah Goldberg
#77. soon as voices are raised productivity is lost. Disagreeing for disagreement's sake won't get you very far. To win a heated argument, you have to keep your cool.
Dana Perino
#78. Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.
Donald Verrilli Jr.
#79. Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.
Robert A. Dahl
#80. Widow Joyner is repacking a trunk with clean clothes when I return. She looks up as I approach, and her expectant smile instantly disappears. "What happened?" "The reverend and I had a theological disagreement that ended in a permanent schism." "So ... no congratulations are in order?
Rae Carson
#81. In any disagreement, I believe both parties are 50% wrong. Taking responsibility for your part fixes most issues.
L.R.W. Lee
#82. The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
#83. Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue ... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.
Rush Limbaugh
#84. 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
#85. The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and (most of all) religious revival; the hushed-up society where everyone is afraid to say what he thinks is on the brink of violence and collapse.
Greg Forster
#86. There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.
Hillary Clinton
#87. Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#88. Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.
John Courtney Murray
#89. 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
#91. We [US government] have no fundamental disagreement with the Saudis - I mean, excuse me, with the Iraqis any more than we do with the Arab League, which we happen to support the position they're taking.
Joe Biden
#92. There is, of course, a lot of disagreement on Earth about whether demons actually exist, what they want, and how much of the tax code they are responsible for.
Robert Kroese
#93. The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
Mario Monti
#95. There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people
Ray Dalio
#96. Live the way you want to live but try to listen what others have to say too. You can always disagree but try to find what is the alternative of disagreement.
Santosh Kalwar
#97. I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.
John McAfee
#98. Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.
Jim Bishop
#99. Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
Robert Breault
#100. Transcending divisiveness is one of the dreams of centrists, as if disagreement were a bad habit rather than fundamental to politics.
Doug Henwood
