Divergent Opinions Quotes

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

I don't think of 'heretic' as a pejorative term - necessarily.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Everybody's got their own opinion and their own say. In today's age, everybody wants to be right, so there's people that hate you; there's people that love you.

I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

My thing is this: You've got to talk about politics because it's out there. But I try to respect the fact that even if you don't have my views, I still respect your view. I may dog your view, but I'll respect that you have that view. And it's OK to come back at me to defend your view.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

The fact that there is no right or wrong is what I think is maddening. I can think you're a phenomenal actor, but the guy next door can think you're a horrible actor, and neither of us is wrong and neither of us is right. It's just a matter of opinion.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

Not everyone will always agree with me.

My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same.

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

I don't see things the way my parents do. They can look at a tree and see something amazing, whereas I just see a tree. That's not to say I don't appreciate its beauty. When I watch the sea in somewhere like Sardinia, I see the beauty in that.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.