If I do not agree with something or do not like something, it will be wrong to presume that I hate it. Presuming disagreement or dislike to be the same as hatred is stifling engagement....

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.

The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love.

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

From what we can tell, this is nothing more than a reasonable disagreement among reasonable people.

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.

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on the world as a mass of truth, and as the word...

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...

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

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!

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

How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man’s confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused...

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won’t sink your ship

City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. . . .There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across...

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.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Then I understood that a survivor has no right to bring a complaint. Whoever survives has won his case, he has no right and no cause to bring charges; he has emerged the stronger, the...

Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and...

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

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

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...

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

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn’t want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat...

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...

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

I am a rebel! But I don’t want people to agree with my views, because if everyone agreed with me then I wouldn’t be rebellious anymore. Did you hear what I heard? Because I heard...

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

I think you are wise. You haven’t got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary’s father. He couldn’t understand Lenin’s dictum: ‘Away with softness.'”I thought of Hercule Poirot’s words.”I’m content,” I said,...

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.

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

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

The one thing I do disagree with the IRL is the fact that they are pushing Danica solely. I think that’s a big mistake on their part.

[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.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles – or sympathetic tears.

As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men...

I won’t fight you, it looks puerile to me, but i can ignore and forget you till you wonder if you still exist.

a window of opportunity at this time to resolve the disagreement on drug-interdiction policies.

I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet...

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact...

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

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

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)

The most tragic cause of social disharmony is when the speed with which people find mistakes of others outweighs their simple belief that they too are infallible!

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when...

The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind...

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw...