Advantage Quote by Benjamin Franklin

In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and…

— David Hume

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

— Jean de la Bruyere

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

— George Santayana

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

— John Stuart Mill

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Thomas Jefferson

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

— Richard Whately

Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen…

— Leo Strauss

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

— William Shakespeare

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter,…

— Blaise Pascal