Disagreement Quotes

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

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

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane [sic], seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails.

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.

Good leaders come together to solve problems in order to make a peaceful coexistence, but just a single soul can become the leathery meat in the soup.

The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

These were not people you could disagree with. If you disagreed, you were wrong."
Juliet Hopkins, Tavistock Institute, as quoted in Relationships and how They Shape Our Capacity to Love By Robert Karen