Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the…

Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise

— Euripides

When anger rises, think of the consequence

— Confucius

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

— Confucius

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

— Elie Wiesel

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.…

— Dallin H. Oaks

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always…

— Deborah Tannen

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

— Joyce Appleby

Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown…

— Plutarch

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

— John Quincy Adams

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

— Darryl Dawkins

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or…

— Garry Winogrand

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of…

— Elizabeth Montagu

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

— James Nayler