Quotes about Disagreement
RULE 10, and it can be expressed thus: WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY, AND NOT DISPUTATIOUSLY OR CONTENTIOUSLY.
— Mortimer Adler
The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.
— Mortimer Adler
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
And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”
— 1 Kings 20:8
Respect for truth and for other human beings of different opinions formed the foundation of a civil society in which one might disagree graciously and might reason together civilly and productively.
— Eric Metaxas
huffed. I get huffed because I have a peculiar person to live with. Just think how disagreeable I have been to God!
— Oswald Chambers
Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
— Ted Dekker
It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
— Mark Twain
Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce.
— Philip Yancey
Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.
— Dorothy Sayers
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
— GK Chesterton
Then making the noise usually written "Tut-tut," he
— Dorothy Sayers