A Quote by Chaim Potok

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

Chaim Potok

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Chaim Potok
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February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Mahatma Gandhi

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Franz Kafka

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

J. William Fulbright

There are differences of opinion that come up naturally within parties. And certainly Israel and Palestine is one that has demonstrated the differences of opinion.

Annamie Paul

Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.

Brigham Young

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

Brooks Atkinson

If I become president, I want to make sure that we shouldn't live in fear. We should all be one people. We should all enjoy differences of opinion without getting upset.

Tan Cheng Bock

You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.

Charlamagne tha God

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

Richard Armour

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

Dallin H. Oaks

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Nikola Tesla

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

Differences of opinion are healthy and they're a part of what makes our democracy great. We grow by understanding each other's differences.

Gabrielle Carteris

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

Lynne Cheney

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

Thomas Jefferson

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

Dan Miller

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