Different Opinions Quotes

• We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, May, Sides

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Interesting, Different, World

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• Different people have different opinions, and its okay to respect all of them.

  Juan Pablo Galavis

  People, Different, Opinion

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• And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Imperfect, Economics

  "On Liberty: Mill's Works".

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• As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Men, Long

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.48, Coventry House Publishing

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

  James Woods

  Business, Talking, People

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• We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

  William Shatner

  People, Giving, Different

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• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

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• I can have different opinions with anybody. I can still be a friend with that person.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Different, Opinion, Persons

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• It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sheep, Vegetarianism, Different

  Outspoken Essays: First Series "Patriotism" (1919)

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• You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

  Carolyn Hax

  Differences, Different, Want

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Hootenanny of Holiday Horrors 2015". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 11, 2015.

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• A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.

  James Madison

  Party, Passion, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Interest, Opinion

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

  Jack McDevitt

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Jack McDevitt (2005). “Seeker”, p.134, Penguin

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• If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Character, Talking

  "Michael Arndt Digs Into ‘Toy Story 3’ and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 07, 2010.

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• Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Movie, Men, Views

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

  Fredrik Bajer

  People, Different, Opinion

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• Two heads are better than one.

  Unknown

  Teamwork, Educational, Kissing

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Thinking, Long

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• People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.

  Amin Maalouf

  Others Opinions, Opposites, People

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• When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same.

  James Madison

  Fall, Passion, Exercise

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.237

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• It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pigs, Different, Fool

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.102, Hackett Publishing

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