Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We will have differences. Even in our own country we do not see everything alike. If we did, we would all want the same wife—and that would be a problem, wouldn't it!

The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from each other, but that we are so alike.

I subscribe to the belief that there is no progress possible anywhere where the differences of people are stifled, their voices not able to be heard, and where they all speak as one voice, when all of us know that human beings don't feel that way.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

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

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.

No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.

You can't expect everyone to agree with you.

Good people can disagree.

We all have our opinions; that's only human.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.

Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different, I think there's two ways of seeing that. There's an opportunity to see the texture of that person, the characteristics that make them unique. And then there's an opportunity to go to war about it and to say that that person is different from me and I don't like you, so let's battle.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings.

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