The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route. Herbert Butterfield
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded.... However, they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything. J.K. Galbraith
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Nelson Goodman
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. Eric Hoffer
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. Frank Medlicott
There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. Malcolm Muggeridge
The difficulty about a gentlemen’s agreement is that it depends on the continued existence of the gentlemen Reginald Withers Payne
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. E.B. White