Dispute Quotes
19 quotes
"The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always said so."(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)"
"They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience."
"Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do."
"When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one."
"We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates."
"The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always sai"
"Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues!’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love."
"There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer."
"No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman."
"When there is no argument [dispute] over a talk, it is called ‘Principle’."
"She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!"
"Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?"
"During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know."
"Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win, happiness is more important then colors."
"The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"-Calvin Coolidge"
"He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute."
"When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf."
"Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion."
"I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness."