Differ Quotes

“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other. Why a difference of opinion upon predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other seems beyond the comprehension of man; and yet in all countries where Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?

Christians tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is—not that they love their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those who differ from them, with simple fairness.

We do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them. If all will admit that all have an equal right to think, then the question is forever solved; but as long as organized and powerful churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority, the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Dare to Differ”
― Matthew Goldfinger

“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 suppose, but it could not be helped.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Passion is different from interest. Those who are just interested in things have the “wish”, but passionate people have the “will”.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ?”
― Matthew Goldfinger

“It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.”
― E. Haldeman-Julius

“Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter,
there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost.
They are also made of matter, but totally different in size and
laws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Don't neglect adverse situations. Sometimes, they carry the yolk of great differences. When you break them away, you waste the yolk!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“We differ from others only in what we do or don’t do, not in what we are.”
― Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version

“The largest uniqueness of yours is where you are special and differ from others”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You can differ with my writing, but I do not write and read senselessly; similarly, you also don't differ senselessly.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Flowers differ in color, just as humans do.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts