76 Quotes About Dispute

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)

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

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.

This conflict in Kashmir is not a matter of today or tomorrow and no one knows that this conflict will end tomorrow because we are the generation in which many from birth opened their eyes to the sound of bullets and bombs.

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.

Do not dispute your thirst of water……not with the flowing brook.

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.

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?

I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument.