disagreement

I don't agree that life favors the prepared mind because life made me lose my mind.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

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.", 1953)

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

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.

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!

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.

It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

Couples with children may argue more, the author suggests, because children are a reminder of just how crucial our choices are.

It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is __ot me_ in order to have a __e_. What we like has no meaning unless we know what we don__ like. Our yes has no meaning if we never say no. My chosen profession has no passion if __ust anyone would do_. Our opinions and thoughts mean very little if there is nothing we disagree with.

When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others_ heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.

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.