50 quotes found
“To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.”
“You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you.”
“Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.”
“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.”
“Relationships like this are built on honesty and trust. If you don't trust me-trust me to know how I'm affecting you, how far I can go with you, how far I can take you-if you can't be honest with m...”
“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 of not loving ...”
“Just because I understand does not mean I agree.”
“You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.”
“When there is alignment and understanding, it is much easier to navigate forward together, moving in and out of agreement.”
“A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.”
“Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.”
“If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.”
“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.”
“As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.”
“I don't often agree with me either; there's much, in fact, with which I disagree. But that's probably because I'm so dashed ingenious that I haven't a clue what I'm saying.”
“I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.”
“Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.”
“We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.”
“Too much agreement kills a chat.”
“Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant ...”
