Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Diversity of opinion✕clear

The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another.

Benjamin Franklin

1754

★ 3.9

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

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 3.9

There 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

Essays · 1580

★ 3.7

Political literature

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.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

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

Religio Medici · 1643

★ 3.5

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.

1952

★ 3.5