Quotes About Opposing Views

#1. 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

#2. An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.

Newton Lee

#3. The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

Sheri Fink

#4. 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

#5. An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:

John Le Carre

#6. If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.

Robert Casey

#7. 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

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

Sharon Begley

#9. It is an unrepresentative city ... .They are so darn sure they are right on everything. The conventional wisdom in Manhattan, Bush believed, often failed to take opposing views into account except to dismiss such opinions as uninformed, prejudiced, and just plain wrong.

Jon Meacham

#10. I don't believe we need to sympathize with opposing views; I do believe we need to develop the capacity to acknowledge and empathize with conflicting opinions that are as passionately defended as our own.

Chris Rhyss Edwards

#11. An apparently good way to get more information about religious group would be through the media. In actual fact, it's probably the worst. Why? Because what makes hot news stories are things like controversy, opposing views, harm, blood, sex, big names, big money, scandal, ect.

Stan Koehler

#12. 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

#13. What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world."
"You don't say."
"Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non.

Daniel Stashower

#14. Work is what you have to do to pay rent. Life is what happens when your shift is over.

Marianne Kavanagh

#15. I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.

Allen Iverson

#16. Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

John Ruskin

#17. I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'

Dwayne Johnson

#18. We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

Sydney Pollack

#20. 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

#21. There's a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage.

Kristen Henderson

#22. When you get a watercolor working right, the feeling of illumination is like a deeply spiritual thing.

Robert I. Eaton

#23. [Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

Barney Frank

#24. Are you okay?" The lady sounded more anxious now, and somehow

Joe Hart

#25. Fear is a shadow of false perception and unreal imaginations.

Debasish Mridha

#26. For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

George Leonard

#27. Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.

Neale Donald Walsch

#28. 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

#29. If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews, 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

#30. There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

Peter J. Tomasi

#31. Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Amartya Sen