Disagree Quotes

• To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

  

  Mortimer Adler
  • Understanding
  • Disagree
  • Impudent

• The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

  

  Mo Brooks
  • Disagree
  • Conservatives
  • Compromising

• When the conversation started to move to the things that we disagreed on, Donald Trump moved it back to the things that we could agree on. I think that's the way you get deals done, right? You and I might disagree 80% of the time but that still gives us 20% opportunity to try to work things out.

  

  Mick Mulvaney
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Moving

• The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.

  

  Erick Erickson
  • America
  • Ghetto
  • Activist

• I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Thinking
  • Freedom
  • Changing

• I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Problem
  • View
  • Necessity

• If you were to go to a restaurant and disagree with Daniel Boulud, he'd probably throw something at you. Restaurant chefs have a problem with caterers because we accommodate special requests, but great service is about getting exactly what you want.

  

  David Castle
  • Problem
  • Service
  • Special

• ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Political
  • Ideas

• Eventually we even got to the point where we could disagree with Bernard Leach. I mean, when we first went there, gee, I mean, this was a man who had written a book. He was, in a sense, God, and we for the first couple of weeks called him Mr. Leach.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Men
  • Book
  • Mean

• I don't speak out of place, but if you ask me, I will definitely speak the truth. Also, my opinion is my opinion. I don't feel the need to force anybody to agree or disagree with me. But if you ask me, I do feel it's important to speak with confidence about my feelings about whatever the questions are.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Truth
  • Confidence
  • Speak

• Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean you're wrong.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Mean
  • Wrong
  • Disagree

• The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Stage

• Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

  

  Mortimer Adler
  • Reason
  • Judging
  • Students

• There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a different place, and what you're doing is experimental. Nobody's been there in hip-hop.'

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Hip Hop
  • Disagree
  • Different Place

• Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

  

  Nigel Calder
  • Government
  • Scientist
  • Disagree

• If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Drink
  • Poison
  • Disagree

• I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

  

  Bernie Glassman
  • Changes
  • Seriously
  • Nose

• The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Values
  • Economic
  • Constitution

• I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

  

  Augustus De Morgan
  • Said
  • Hear
  • Disagree

• Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

  

  Michael Bacon
  • People
  • Answers
  • Meaning

• What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

  

  John Brunner
  • People
  • Right
  • Disagree

• Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Force
  • Disagree
  • Don't Want

• In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Washington
  • Disagree
  • Gets Up

• 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?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Sin
  • Errors
  • Dialogue

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