Differ Quotes
305 quotes by 267 authors
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We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget…
— Woodrow Wilson
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We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I…
— Charles Dickens
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The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of…
— Thomas M. Disch
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In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom;…
— Julia Child
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I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did…
— Robin McKinley
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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles, and…
— Osamu Dazai
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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but…
— Henri Nouwen
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We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook…
— Francis Schaeffer
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[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by…
— Jane Jacobs
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There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our…
— Karl Popper
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All people are the same; only their habits differ.
— Confucius
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We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage…
— Helen Keller
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in…
— Joseph Addison
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its…
— Thomas Huxley
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If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like a man traveling…
— Benjamin Franklin
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When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men…
— Bertrand Russell
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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the…
— Aesop
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