Divergent Perspectives Quotes

We are different beings. There is nothing in life which links us together. Our names, our clothes, our foods–they are all different; our economic life, our educational ideas, our treatment of women, our attitude towards animals .... We challenge each other at every point of the compass.

Writers and politicians don't think the same. They define truth differently.

Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very few of them are compatible, and very few of them are very compatible with the laws of nature.

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

I know the pundits don't agree with me.

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

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

I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

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

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tick. But to find a character like Kai, who is so far that he doesn't even feel things, he is so different from me. That is the most exciting part.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with you as venal or stupid. I constantly tell my students that if they're in the company of people who always say "amen" to what you say, find other company. And that is the source of illiberalism, when you are unable to listen to someone who thinks differently. That's when democracies are in trouble.

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.

Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

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.

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

People don't seem to want vision anymore, in large part because they sense that no one has a vision that can encompass a contradictory world.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

My dad used to tell me 'opinions are like assholes, everybody has one'

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.