Discord Quotes

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

Better a holy discord than a profane concord.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.

Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.

If there's no hatred in your heart, then your mind won't find fault with others.

When an answer finally comes to me, I know I've completely lost all my wits - or as my mama used to tell my father, I have a few screws loose.

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

Discord on one level is harmony on another

If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say, seed of discord is being planted in your relationship.