Dispute Quotes

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“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.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“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)”
― J.B.S. Haldane

“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.”
― Giordano Bruno

“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.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“If enemy offers you two options,
surprise him with your third one,
end the feud with the fourth one.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“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!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

“When two wise men are blaming one another,
then time has come for you to be the third one.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:

"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge”
― Calvin Coolidge

“I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“What will it be in the end? One flies to the east, the other to the west; they lose the principle, dispersing it in the crowd of incidents: after an hour of tempest, they know not what they seek: one is low, the other high, and a third wide. One catches at a word and a simile; another is no longer sensible of what is said in opposition to him, and thinks only of going on at his own rate, not of answering you: another, finding himself too weak to make good his rest, fears all, refuses all, at the very beginning, confounds the subject; or, in the very height of the dispute, stops short and is silent, by a peevish ignorance affecting a proud contempt or a foolishly modest avoidance of further debate: provided this man strikes, he cares not how much he lays himself open; the other counts his words and weighs them for reasons; another only brawls and uses the advantage of his lungs. Here’s one who learnedly concludes against himself, and another, who deafens you with prefaces and senseless digressions: another falls into downright railing, and seeks a quarrel after the German fashion, to disengage himself from a wit that presses too hard upon him: and a last man sees nothing into the reason of the thing, but draws a line of circumvallation about you of dialectic clauses, and the formulas of his art.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“John, always clueless to the moment at hand, points fiercely at his feet, commanding Dotty to come. But Dotty refuses to break rank with her fellow musicians.
Good for her.
Naturally, her disobedience does not go over with John. He bumps me occasionally, as he fumes, pacing erratically. I throw an elbow (that doesn’t connect) and give him a glare of irritation. Why isn’t anyone paying attention to me?”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“Do not dispute your thirst of water…
…not with the flowing brook.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“I love to discourse and dispute, but it is with but few men, and for myself; for to do it as a spectacle and entertainment to great persons, and to make of a man’s wit and words competitive parade is, in my opinion, very unbecoming a man of honor.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“It is possible for you to be the wrong one in an argument about you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you recover and discover that your lover refused to stopover during your hangover ordeal because of a spillover dispute, will it be over between you both?”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“La rhétorique a pour principe ce qui est probable; pour moyen, l'argument ; pour fin, la persuasion : l'art de la dispute a pour principe ce qui est vraisemblable ; pour moyen, la discussion ; pour fin, la victoire.”
― Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies

“When you consider marriage as a sacred act, you don’t think of breaking it up for any reason. Once you have made up your mind to stay with your partner, whatever it takes, you shall find a way to resolve all disputes that crop up between you two.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Brother, why do we fight like we are not flesh of flesh? Blood of blood. Bone of bone. Like if the time came I would not go to war for you or catch a thousand bullets just to keep you safe. Brother, why do we push these words
at each other like we are not of the same womb. Brother, why do we use our truths like knives. Why does this distance exist between us? Why are we worlds apart on the same planet?”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“If you come from a family where there is no struggle to outshine one another, give thanks to God.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Anytime we get the “Yes—But!” as leaders, we have not given them clear leadership with vision leaving doubt and slowing the process of project success, and if the “Yes—But!” is birth from rebellion, it can not last with a team driven towards success.”
― John M. Sheehan

“The captain is the figure who holds sway over the dressing room by speaking to teammates as a peer, counseling them on and off the field, motivating them, challenging them, protecting them, resolving disputes, enforcing standards, inspiring fear when necessary, and above all setting a tone with words and deeds.”
― Sam Walker, The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams

“Just as some of the toughest fights physically are between those mostly alike, the roughest of fights verbally are between fighters emotionally alike.”
― Criss Jami

“You can't possibly have a restful sleep, knowing you've wronged someone. Sort matters out soonest when you've had a dispute with someone.”
― Mufti Menk

“The fusion of politics, business, and entertainment may create headlines, but a sustainable solution to international disputes requires a deeper understanding of the underlying issues.”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“A dispute about race devolves into racism.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov