Oscar Wilde Quotes

If all the economists in the world would be laid end to end, they would still point in different directions.

I know the pundits don't agree with me.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about this and that, I think you've got this wrong" - then not only do I invite that, I freaking love that. I love that. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.

That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions.

All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

We’ll continue our discussion later. Right now I intend to escort Miss Peyton to her room.” “That is not a wise idea, in my opinion,” the earl said. “I’m glad I didn’t ask for it, then,” Simon returned pleasantly

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.

"I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better."

To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.

I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'

I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.

You know how you always expect someone to think the same as you and then your like, really shocked when they don't? Like when it's a cold day and you turn to the person next to you and say, 'Its so cold, aren't you cold?' and then they say 'no.' It's kinda like, 'what, are you a communist?'

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me.

I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.