quotations about differences
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
MONTAIGNE
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
EDWARD ALBEE
Seascape
Does it really make a difference if we don't see eye to eye
Does it really make a difference to build your castle in the sky
Does it really make a difference at all
Are we gonna let the big things take over the small
Does it make a difference at all
MARVIS STAPLES
"Does it Really Make a Difference", Into the Deep
To think is to differ.
CLARENCE DARROW
remark during the Scopes "monkey" trial, Jul. 13, 1925
Unity isn't established by ignoring the differences between different groups, but by persuading everyone to take all the different struggles seriously.
KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR
"The fight against racism doesn't stop here", Socialist Worker, July 23, 2013
What has the straw to do with the wheat?
BIBLE
Jeremiah 23:28
Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.
SHANE KOYCZAN
attributed, Truth or Beard
Our differences are like the pits in an apple, minor irritants at first, but they are the seeds of a lasting relationship. For though it is our similarities that unite us, it is our differences that we learn from.
GARY MCGUIRE
Learning to Laugh
The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The only difference that I see
Is you are exactly the same as you used to be
THE WALLFLOWERS
"The Difference", Bringing Down the Horse
If you hate difference, you'll be bored to death.
TOBA BETA
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Is there a difference between yes and no
Is there a difference between up and down
Must I fear what others fear
What nonsense
HOWARD JONES
"Is There a Difference?", Dream into Action
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
inaugural address, March 4, 1801
As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.
BETHENNY FRANKEL
A Place of Yes
Differences don't just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.
HARRIET LERNER
The Dance of Connection
It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
CATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
We're all leading lives that are different and yet the same.
ANNE FRANK
The Diary of a Young Girl, July 6, 1944
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL
Reflection of a Siamese Twin
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.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Some Mistakes of Moses