#conflict

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. ↗

— Horace Mann

#growth #intelligence #knowledge #opinion #intelligence

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#been #before #believed #bible #conflicts

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#age #busy #busyness #coincide #come

We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts. ↗

— April Glaspie

#opinion

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#between #conflict #international #islamic #more

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#bridges #build #conflicts #create #knowledge

My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#friends #global #global war #only #terrorism

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#conflict #during #early #foreign #front

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#although #australia #conflict #dad #drafted

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles. ↗

— Jon Heder

#hard #obstacles #overcome #protagonists #work