Differ Quotes - page 2

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles. (Joseph Addison)
And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up. View quote
Roger Ebert
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue. View quote
William H. Seward
-Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? -Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him. View quote
Donald Barthelme
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 with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses. View quote
Helen Keller
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. View quote
Richard Dawkins
To think is to differ. View quote
Clarence Darrow
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Everyone has the same God; only people differ. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ. View quote
Charles Dickens
Surveying the shifts of interest among computer scientists and the ever-expanding family of those who depend on computers for their work, one cannot help being struck by the power of the computer to bind together, in a genuine community of interest, people whose motivations differ widely. View quote
Maurice Wilkes
... from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.) View quote
Mark Twain
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. View quote
Robert Wilson Lynd
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways. View quote
Franz Boas
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibility; and are they not by their different inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes...? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes? View quote
Isaac Newton
The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that. View quote
Ronald Reagan
When it comes to the insightful reading of such passages that comes via the elevated sense, we shall not beg to differ at all about its name-whether one wishes to call it tropologia, allegoria, or anything else-but only about whether it contains meanings that are beneficial. (Gregory of Nyssa)
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later? View quote
Otto Rank
Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ. View quote
Richard M. Daley
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. View quote
Bill Bowerman
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington