Quotes about Dispute

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

Men have tried to construct abstract and causal answers to this question of sin's origin and have violated the very limits of objectivity. Whoever reflects on the origin of cannot engage himself in a merely theoretical dispute; rather he is engaged intimately, in the problem of sin's guilt.

No fearless fool now fronts thee. I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.

They saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them… . He asked, "What are you arguing with them about?" Mark 9:14, 16

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (cæteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wound in the knee—or Whether the pain of a wound in the knee is not greater than the pain of a wound in the groin—are points which to this day remain unsettled.

Tis dreadful for words and strife to happen between brothers, when they fall into dispute.

The thing is, most people just don't enjoy haggling, period.

O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.