Joseph Joubert Quotes

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.

Hold on. It’s not a fight. It’s a discussion.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

I would never say don't have an argument.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

If a woman and a man who have an argument keep talking they keep fighting.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.