Disagreement Quotes

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”

“You can disagree without being disagreeable.”

“If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.”

“I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.”

“There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind”

“Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?”

“With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.”

“When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?”

“In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.”

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.”

“Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.”

“Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.”

“I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.”

“Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.”

“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.”

“As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.”

“Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.”

“The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.”

“Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.”

“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.”

“I cannot say that I don't disagree with you.”

“Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.”