Ramakrishna Quotes

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

There's no common taste in this world.

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice. The stress is in our civilization.

I celebrate everyone’s opinion even if I disagree with it.

… what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

… two men may be as sincere, as earnest, as faithful, as uncompromising, and yet hold opinions far asunder as the poles

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.’

Since opinions do not find in me a ready soil to thrust and spread their roots into, no premise shocks me, no belief hurts me, no matter how opposite to my own they may be.

I think difference of opinion is a good thing.

To me, India's always represented 'everything'; it represents 'all.' Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you'll never feel like you've missed out on life.

I don't expect for people to like the same things, so I don't feel a need to force people to understand who we are.