Quotes About Difference Of Opinion

#1. Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Religion has to be protected; difference of opinion is not to be protected.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.

Angela Merkel

#4. You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

Neal Shusterman

#5. I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

Studs Terkel

#6. What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

Lupe Fiasco

#8. That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect.

Jodi Picoult

#9. It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.

Laurence Sterne

#10. Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

Victoria Osteen

#11. There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

Sam Harris

#12. In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

Herman Kahn

#13. Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

Robert Genn

#14. It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;

Jane Austen

#15. Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

Fethullah Gulen

#17. I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#18. I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

Naomi Wolf

#19. But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

#21. Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Jeff Kinney

#22. And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.

Maimonides

#25. Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#26. I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

Isaac Asimov

#27. The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.

Bruce Braley

#28. A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Will Rogers

#29. Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

Benjamin Rush

#30. First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#31. Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

Thomas Jefferson

#32. Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure ... we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.

Thomas Jefferson

#33. It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Mark Twain

#34. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

#35. I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

Dennis Kucinich

#36. Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect.

Zelda La Grange

#37. I'd clash with my dad over other things, you know, like difference of opinion and me getting testosterone, you know what I'm saying? Me feeling like I'm a little tough, being a teenager. But my big brother would come in drunk and really, really try my dad and I didn't want to do that.

Ryan Montgomery

#38. We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

Rafik Hariri

#39. If you and someone you love have a difference of opinion on something, maybe its beset to let it stay that way. Respect each other's right to believe what you believe. Respect each other. Agree to disagree.

Karen Kingsbury

#40. Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a 'weakness'.

Dada Bhagwan

#41. The pragmatic method starts from the postulate that there is no difference of truth that doesn't make a difference of fact somewhere; and it seeks to determine the meaning of all differences of opinion by making the discussion hinge as soon as possible upon some practical or particular issue.

William James

#42. Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs have clearly been manipulated, the 'opinions' seem to have all the more force, with the suggested 'participation of the world' articulating that 'opinion' as a difference.

Joseph Kosuth

#43. I would say I'm very surprised it went down the way it did. I thought it was a possibility, but when I left for vacation, I definitely didn't think I would come back as not a member of the Titans. But we had a difference of the opinion somewhere along the way.

Matt Hasselbeck

#44. No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

Criss Jami

#45. The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.

Thurman Arnold

#46. After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

Dan Castellaneta

#47. In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help the Saudis modernize.

John Perkins

#48. Because the union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of marriage against activist judges. And I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law.

George W. Bush

#49. Men are different; sheep are all alike.

Raheel Farooq

#50. There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

John Stuart Mill

#51. The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing
and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.

Soren Kierkegaard

#52. For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

Nikolai Gogol

#53. I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

Kang Chol-Hwan

#54. Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

Terry Tempest Williams

#55. No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.

Joyce Carol Oates

#56. Some people make a difference, some people make you different.

Saleem Sharma

#57. The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no
opinion about things I don't understand.

Gertrude Stein

#58. My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

Lynette Fromme

#59. Quarrels and differences of opinions are solely due to a flawed-vision.

Dada Bhagwan

#60. Instead of living together (in a joint family) with a difference of opinions, it is better to live separately and live with unity.

Dada Bhagwan

#61. I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my selfe ...

Thomas Browne

#62. I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

Thomas Browne

#63. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.

Robyn Schneider

#64. My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

Thomas Jefferson