When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.
The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am. " It's true.
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.
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.
This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.
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.
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.
The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was. . . . He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.
If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.
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.
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.
