Tim Ferriss Quotes

Discussion in America means dissent.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

I don't want to make videos where people are always happy and they're agreeing. It's boring! Do something where people can talk about it.

Sometimes people have different views on different issues.

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

I like arguments.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

One can always debate questions back and forth.

What I love is getting polarized opinions.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Life itself is controversy.

It is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

I don’t expect anyone to just sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.