Differences Of Opinion Quotes

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Sad, Philosophy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Differences, Inquiry, Opinion

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• Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Mean, Maturity, Differences

  M. Fethullah Gulen, Ali Unal (2007). “Pearls of Wisdom”, p.88, Tughra Books

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• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Wisdom, Horse

  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 19

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• Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Opportunity, Differences, Opinion

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• In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

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• It were not best that we should all think alike.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Opinion, Should

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religious, Differences, Diversity

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Political Differences, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Differences, Finding Yourself, Examination

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.99, Routledge

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• In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Country, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.378

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• 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

  Hate, War, Differences

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Exercise, Differences, Democracy

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• There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

  Lynne Cheney

  Differences, Opinion

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• The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Differences, Understanding, Opinion

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Communication, Practice, Differences

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• Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

  Chaim Potok

  Differences, Lost Friendship, Honest

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution, and the circumstances in which he is placed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Party, Differences

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.208

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  J. William Fulbright

  Men, Thinking, Differences

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• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Рипол Классик

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• There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

  Robert Mueller

  Differences, Analysis, Opinion

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• We dont think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but well 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

  Country, Thinking, Differences

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• But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Differences, Principles, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Patriotic, Free Opinion

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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