Disagree Quotes - Page 18

• I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Thinking, Views

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• In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Jesus, Hate, Believe

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• To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

  Peter Gay

  Able, Kind, Psychological

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• For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Fighting, Government

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.67

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• In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.

  Craig Newmark

  Entrepreneur, Helping, Sometimes

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• A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

  Leon Festinger

  Confidence, Men, Psychology

  Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter (2013). “When Prophecy Fails”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

  Al Sharpton

  Children, Hate, Names

  First Million Youth March in Harlem, New York, September 05, 1998.

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• I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

  Andrew Sullivan

  People, Political, Enjoy

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• What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

  Newton N. Minow

  Mean, Interest, Public Interest

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• Anyone interested in the past, present, or future of banking and financial crises should read The Bankers' New Clothes. Admati and Hellwig provide a forceful and accessible analysis of the recent financial crisis and offer proposals to prevent future financial failures. While controversial, these proposals--whether you agree or disagree with them--will force you to think through the problems and solutions.

  Michael J. Boskin

  Past, Thinking, Clothes

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• We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

  Christine Gregoire

  May, Can Do, Disagreeable

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• If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Drama, Good Movie, Prejudice

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt: the new Heath Ledger?" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2009.

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• My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Father, House, Actors

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• Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

  Roger Ebert

  Good Questions, Might, Reason

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

  Lena Dunham

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

  Moshe Dayan

  Fog, Defense, Lasts

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• Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

  Dorothy Day

  Party, Political, Trying

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• Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fighting, Philosopher, Arguing

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

  Richard Dawkins

  Followers, And Love, Christ

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• This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

  Elmer Davis

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

  Wayne Gretzky

  Kids, Different

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• Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, Proud

  "The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Shewing who Robbed Him, who Helped Him, and who Passed Him by".

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• The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Stupid, Believe

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