Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost anybody from the past will hold views discordant with the present.

— Ann Widdecombe

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

— Alan Dean Foster

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.

— Jonathan Katz

There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And,…

— Jeff Greenfield

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

— Albert Einstein

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

— Heraclitus

Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the…

— Henry B. Eyring

we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel…

— Chris Jordan

It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is…

— Catherine Ponder

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon