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Diversity of opinion6 quotes
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain · 1894The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another. — Benjamin Franklin · 1754There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. — John Milton · 1644I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few dayes I should dissent my selfe. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643That community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denuciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. — Learned Hand · 1952Curiosity1 quote
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. — John Milton · 1644Different perspectives1 quote
The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another. — Benjamin Franklin · 1754Dissent1 quote
That community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denuciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. — Learned Hand · 1952Horses1 quote
The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another. — Benjamin Franklin · 1754Man and animals1 quote
The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another. — Benjamin Franklin · 1754Open-mindedness1 quote
I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few dayes I should dissent my selfe. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643Questioning authority1 quote
That community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denuciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. — Learned Hand · 1952Red Scare1 quote
That community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denuciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. — Learned Hand · 1952Thinking for oneself1 quote
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain · 1894Tolerance1 quote
I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few dayes I should dissent my selfe. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643