Discord Quotes

• Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

  David Suzuki

  People, Humanity, Together

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• Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

  Diogenes

  Strong, Lust, Towers

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• The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Differences, Way

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Harmony, Be Good, Oneself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hope, Truth, Errors

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• The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

  Tommy Douglas

  Home, Greed, Insecurity

  Tommy Douglas' remarks at the Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan CCF in Regina, Canada, July 1951.

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord.
  Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Brother, Diversity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.430, Delphi Classics

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• By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

  Sallust

  Unity, Unions, States

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• He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

  Aesop

  Strife

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.87

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• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, War, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.36, Ravenio Books

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• In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

  Tacitus

  Men, Excellence, Moral

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 1,

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• From discord, find Harmony.

  Albert Einstein

  Harmony

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teamwork, Unions, Danger

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Song Of Hiawatha I: The Peace-Pipe”

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• So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Musical, Thunder

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [118]

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• Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

  Voltaire

  Tolerance, Mankind, Ill

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Agreement, Unity, Silent

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.381

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• Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Medicine, Restoration, Elements

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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• Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

  Heraclitus

  Life, Peace, Chaos

  "Heraclitus". Book by Philip Wheelwright, 1959.

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• Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

  Plutarch

  Harmony, Harmony In Music

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.1187, 谷月社

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• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

  Alice James

  Pain, Fall, Soul

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  Kate Chopin

  Crush, Hands, Gnarly

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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• All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Evil, Erring

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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• We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Heart, Thinking, Two

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Medicine, Restoration

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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