Opposing Ideas Quotes

#1. What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?"
Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.

Jodi Thomas

#2. You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

Charlie Munger

#3. The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.

Roger Martin

#4. Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Branden

#5. But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

Mary Balogh

#6. Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

Cynthia Weil

#8. It's about believing two opposing ideas in your head at the same time: hope and grief.

Claire Fuller

#9. I don't use any makeup if I'm not doing work.

Liu Wen

#10. Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

Bruno Bettelheim

#11. We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12. I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

Eric Bogosian

#13. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.

Sherman Alexie

#14. Adieu the clang of war's alarms! To other deeds my soul is strung, And sweeter notes shall now be sung; My harp shall all its powers reveal, To tell the tale my heart must feel; Love, Love alone, my lyre shall claim, In songs of bliss and sighs of flame.

Kathleen Baldwin

#15. We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

Albert Pike

#16. All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

#17. Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

Michael Meade

#18. To be and not to be are just two ideas opposing each other. But they are not reality, and they do not describe reality.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#19. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong ... it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.

Emma Watson

#20. Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

Ayn Rand

#21. I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

Pope Francis

#22. The other big con is whether having sex could cause me to more than just like like Guy. But that could happen even if we don't sleep together. You don't even need to date a boy to dream about marrying him.

Daria Snadowsky

#23. Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

Charlie Trotter