Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.

Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

True learning always creates a paradox of promoting disagreement in order to create a consensus.

— Frank Matobo

“As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting…

— Alfred P. Sloan

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

— Alister E. McGrath

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that…

— Plato

Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.”…

— Ayn Rand

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”

— Criss Jami

“You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering…

— E. B. White

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

— Criss Jami

One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but…

— Barack Obama

“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…

— Thomas Paine

A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry…

— Matthew Reilly

“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'…

— Penelope Lively