Opposing Views Quotes

• Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

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• It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

  Jack McDevitt

  Views, May, Problem

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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  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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• Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

  William J. Clinton

  Strength, Values, Strength And Wisdom

  Address to Democratic National Convention, Boston, Mass., 26 July 2004

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• I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Believe, Views

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• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Education, Time, Positive Thinking

  "The Crack-Up" (1936)

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• It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

  Fred Rogers

  Respect, Gun, Views

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

  Elena Kagan

  Wisdom, Truth, School

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Equality, Light, Views

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• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sheep, Agreement, Civil War

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

  Graham Hancock

  Views, Eras, New Era

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• I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

  Edward Gibbon

  Respect, Life And Love, Mistake

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• I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Views, Opposites, Two Sides

  "Fictional character: Edward R. Murrow". "Good Night, and Good Luck", 2005.

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• Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

  Sharon Begley

  Inspirational, Views, Overcoming

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• It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.

  James Hillman

  Views, Journalism, Thirds

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews.com, you will have Arianna Huffington, a little box pop up with her showing that Bill O’Reilly is wrong on this or here’s an opposing view of Bill O’Reilly.

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, Views, Neutrality

  "The Glenn Beck Program", www.glennbeck.com. December 2, 2010.

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• Although one never really knows what one's associates think of one deep down, I believe I was easy to work with, even though I have the reputation of being authoritative. Still, I've always delegated responsibility and authority to other; I've always listened to opposing views and suggestions with an open mind.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Guy de Rothschild (1985). “The whims of fortune”

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