Conflicting Ideas Quotes

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

Views, Numbers, Intelligence

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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

Self, Sea, Ideas

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Winston Churchill

Decision, Genius, Information

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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Kelly Miller

Taken, Errors, Justice

Kelly Miller (1914). “Out of the house of bondage”

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Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Donatella Versace

Fashion, Creativity, Bad Ass

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

Carl Sagan

Science, Acceptance, Ideas

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

John Grierson

Two, Important, Opinion

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I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

Padmasree Warrior

Thinking, Self, Long

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Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

Virgilia Peterson

Healing, People, Conflict

Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Ambrose Bierce

Thinking, Giving, Satisfaction

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.39, University of Georgia Press

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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

Stephen Fry

Mean, Opposites, Adults

Stephen Fry's BAFTA annual television lecture, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2010.

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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

Nathan Myhrvold

Real, Ideas, People

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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Robert M. Hutchins

Communication, Mean, Ideas

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Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Confused, Army, Men

"The Age of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 8), 2002.

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Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

Eero Saarinen

Ideas, Confusion, Trying

Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press

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I don't know what the comics community could do to make everyone feel welcome; I'm cynical and unsure if everyone can feel welcome, simply because so many people have conflicting ideas of what is welcoming, but I think that calling out creators and comic industry people who have harassed people and/or been abusive is a good first step. If we create a culture where those kinds of actions can no-longer go unchecked, then more people may feel welcome to participate and know that they will be heard if they experience unfairness.

Liz Prince

Thinking, Ideas, People

Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

Danny Hillis

Ideas, Design, Difficulty

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In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Peter Senge

Team, Thinking, Ideas

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A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.

Lee Strobel

Believe, Ideas, Two

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I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Merritt Wever

Thinking, Ideas, People

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