Confidence Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“This contrariety of evidence, in the present case, may be derived from several different causes; from the opposition of contrary testimony; from the character…

— Christopher Hitchens

“While it’s easier to avoid confrontations in the short run, the consequences of doing so can be massively destructive in the long term. It’s…

— Ray Dalio

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders…

— Giordano Bruno

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

— John Rawls

“We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there…

— Daniel Kahneman

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and…

— George Washington

“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis,…

— David Hume

“Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have…

— John Stuart Mill

“It is my rule never to take a side in any part in the quarrels of others, nor to inquire into them. I generally…

— Thomas Jeffeson

“When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when you can…

— Idries Shah

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

— Geoff Tate

“Inner conflict is the result of competing claims on attention.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi