Disputes Quotes - Page 4

• Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Doors, Noise, Be Careful

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• Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Art, Believe, Men

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.269, University of Chicago Press

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• It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

  Samuel Butler

  Anger, Gains, Debate

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4366, Delphi Classics

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• I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Hands, Wish

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• You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Philosophical, School, Know How

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence”, p.9, Springer Science & Business Media

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• If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

  Satchel Paige

  Lying, Down And, Carrying On

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mistake, Thinking, Land

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: Two Memorable Addresses".

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• The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

  William C. Kirby

  Important, United States, Asian

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• I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

  Shakira

  Clothes, Support, Brooklyn

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• Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

  Archibald Cox

  Men, Law, Goal

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Age, World, Earth

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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• I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Matter, Philosopher, Debate

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• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Florida, Law, People

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• There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects and parties in most branches of science [and politics]; and disputes that are carried on from age to age, without being brought to issue.

  Thomas Reid

  Party, Issues, Age

  Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

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• The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

  Warren E. Burger

  Pain, Judging, People

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• Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Thinking, Achievement

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• To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

  Aristotle

  Party, Giving, Decision

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Should Have, Class, Gentleman

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes”, p.17

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• Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.

  Steven Galloway

  Past, Knowing, People

  Steven Galloway (2014). “The Confabulist: A Novel”, p.115, Penguin

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• Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

  Pythagoras

  Ignorant, Mute

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• It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Exercise, Limits, States

  "Slavery and Freedom". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1939.

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• It's true we have our disagreements on border issues, we have disagreements on trade and related issues, but you don't go invading a country whenever you have a dispute on trade issues, ... We have more civilized mechanisms on resolving such problems.

  Meles Zenawi

  Country, Issues, Borders

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• I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

  James Anthony Froude

  Thinking, Heaven, Earth

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.12

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• I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

  Denis Diderot

  Silence, Important, Matter

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