Disputes Quotes:

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

- A.J. Ayer

source: "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.

topic: Philosopher, Disputes

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.

- Amr Moussa

topic: Military, Disputes, Threat, Military Power

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Needs, Disputes, Currents, Albany, Current Situation

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

- Aristotle

topic: Disputes, Term, Paragraph, Could Have Been

Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.

- Bernard Bolzano

source: Bernard Bolzano (2014). “Paradoxes of the Infinite (Routledge Revivals)”, p.84, Routledge

topic: Infinite, Possibility, Disputes, Actuality

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

- Brent Scowcroft

topic: Hussein, Disputes, Menace

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

- Charles Churchill

topic: Criticism, Reason, Disputes, Sufficient

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Eye, Christ, Disputes, Discussing

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Political, Disputes, Extremes, Extremism, Political Extremism

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

- Edmund Waller

source: Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184

topic: Life, Angel, Disputes

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Jesus, Christ, Disputes

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

- Francis Bond Head

topic: Bread, Disputes, Quarrels

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

- Horace

topic: Disputes, Court, Grammar

The dispute is still before the judge.

- Horace

topic: Latin, Judging, Disputes

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

- Howard Berman

topic: Sides, Disputes, Should

There is no shortage of disputes.

- Howard Raiffa

source: Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.7, Harvard University Press

topic: Disputes, Shortage

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

- James Buchanan

source: James Buchanan, James Buchanan Henry (1910). “The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence”

topic: Historical, Alliances, Disputes

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

- James Naismith

source: James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.54, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Umpires, Fields, Disputes

Glory to he who brings dispute.

- Jean Rouch

topic: Glory, Disputes

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

- John Bercow

topic: Past, Want, Disputes

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

- John Mearsheimer

source: "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.

topic: Powerful, Most Powerful, Disputes

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Children, Firsts, Disputes

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

- Juvenal

topic: Disputes, Cases

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

- Lord Acton

topic: History, Opinion, Disputes

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

- Margaret M. Lock

source: Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press

topic: Self, Life And Death, Disputes, Between Life And Death, Mobile

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

- Margaret Way

source: Margaret Way (2009). “Cattle Baron: Nanny Needed”, p.146, Harlequin

topic: Men, Alive, Disputes

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

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

topic: Philosophical, School, Disputes

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

- Nathanael Emmons

topic: Justice, Definitions, Disputes

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

- Pythagoras

topic: Ignorant, Silent, Disputes

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Horse, Men, Disputes

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

topic: Doors, Noise, Disputes

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

- Robert J. Sawyer

source: Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.88, Macmillan

topic: Simple, Order, Disputes, Seeming

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

- Rudolf Virchow

source: Disease, Life, and Man 'On Man'

topic: Disputes, Science And Religion

I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

- Ruth Simmons

topic: Children, My Family, Disputes

It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

- Santiago Ramon y Cajal

source: Charlas de Cafe

topic: Men, Opinion, Disputes

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

- Satchel Paige

topic: Lying, Down And, Disputes

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Mythical Creatures, Switzerland, Disputes, Territorial, Twilight Series

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.

- Thomas Sherlock

topic: Passion, Disputes, Controversy

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes

- Tom Cruise

topic: Mean, Settling, Disputes, Settling In

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

- William Penn

topic: Disputes, Endless

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Women, Disputes, Lunatic

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

- Nigel Gibson

topic: Hatred, Disputes, Schemes

One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

- Ken Loach

source: "Ken Loach and Paul Laverty". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

topic: Lessons, Sides, Disputes, Broadcasters

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.101, Oxford University Press

topic: Taste, Life Is, Disputes, Taste Of Life, Tasting

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

topic: Taste, Life Is, Disputes

A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

topic: Want, Boundaries, Disputes

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

topic: Political, Use, Disputes

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

- Pythagoras

topic: Ignorant, Disputes, Mute

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

- John Buchan

source: John Buchan (2016). “THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS & Other Adventure Stories (7 Action-Packed Titles in One Volume): Gripping Tales of Dangerous Exploits, Mysteries & Espionage Intrigue: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Midwinter, Prester John, A Prince of the Captivity, Salute to Adventurers, The Path of the King...”, p.1111, e-artnow

topic: Sides, Disputes, Fine

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Life, People, Disputes

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Marriage, Long, Disputes, Long Conversations

Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: Trials, Disputes, Witness

Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

topic: Disputes, Knows

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

- King James I

topic: Christian, Atheism, Disputes, Blasphemy, Good Christian

He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

- Laozi

topic: Love, Doe, Disputes

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

- Eric Maisel

source: Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

topic: Artist, Disputes, Notion

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

- Laura Riding

source: Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1938). “Collected Poems”

topic: Women, Succeed, Disputes

Arguments are too much like disputes.

- Jane Austen

source: Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby

topic: Too Much, Argument, Disputes