37 Quotes About Agreeing to Disagree

Finding a way to make amends and settles a disagreement is best accomplished when both parties understand their differences and what sets them apart. Here are some great quotes about agreeing to disagree that will help you to settle the things that separate us from one another.

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“As a result, your subconscious mind will do its best to keep you from a successful marriage, because you have a disagreement between your consciousness and sub consciousness.”

“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”

“Disagreement, however, is not anger.”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”

“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”

“I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other.”

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

“I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”

“I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.”

“I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.”

“Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and behavior to create more of what the world needs – love, compassion, and connection.”

“It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”

“It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.”

“It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make.”

“I’ve never written a song that’s hopeless. I’m not a hopeless person. I’m crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation.”

“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like.”

“My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn’t want to ruin their happiness – even if that happiness is ignorance.”

“Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.”

“Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.”

“Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.”

“Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination!”

“Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.”

“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.”

“The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.”

“The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane, seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails.”

“The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles.”

“These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.”

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”

“We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.”

“We need a government, not politics. Because there’s too much politics. Of course there should be debate.”

“We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”

“What I can give is not necessary what you will get but along our disagreements we will find some alternate ways.”

“What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you’re going to have quarrels, and on some things, you’re just going to have to agree to disagree.”

“When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.”

“You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.”

“You must agree to disagree, a trait so rare these days!”

Not all disagreements are bad. Finding a way to respect one another and our differences is key to finding peace and harmony.