Top 208 Disagreement Quotes & Sayings

I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.

Disagreement is something normal.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

Barack Obama and I have an honest disagreement on the issue of abortion.

It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent with friends was consumed by disagreement, then there was no room for the essence of friendship, which was a sharing of the world. And that sharing involved seeing things the same way, or at least seeing things through the eyes of the friend.

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

I think you can be in disagreement with a president you support without being disrespectful or nasty or snide.

Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

With Escape the Fate, I was pushing for synths and keyboards and stuff, and everybody was in disagreement with that. They didn't want to do that.

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

For my generation the relationship with Europe was the central point of American foreign policy. Even during my time in government there was disagreement, sometimes very strong disagreement. But they were all like arguments within a family. I am not sure if the generation which doesn't have these experiences has the same view of things.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.

I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common ground. That's good.

Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

I don't want to live in a world where Donald Trump is the President. He is not doing anything in Baltimore, but I am dedicated to using whatever platform I have to make sure that he is not the President. This is not simply a disagreement about ideas. It's a disagreement about values, and the values that he espouses are values of bigotry and hate, and that isn't OK.

I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.” I found neither. Today, I am not looking for “intelligent disagreement” any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

The best way to minimize disagreement is to make sure that all the stakeholders are in the room.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.

I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I can see both sides of the argument.

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

There's so much disagreement about investing, and it's because nobody really knows.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.