Quotes About Differences

My strengths are not your strengths.

I think I was always interested in the larger world, even as a kid, and my experiences as a journalist only heightened that interest. Covering conflict, I learned that though leaders often try to create a sense of "us" and "them," the differences are not that delineated. I often felt like it was a whole bunch of "us," with some of "them" scattered around. That made me feel that the borders we draw around ourselves are often artificial.

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear ' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.

Teško ?e se sporazumeti dva ?ovjeka koji misle razli?ito. - Lako ?e se sporazumeti dva ?ovjeka koji misle.

The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.

Tots els homes són iguals de qui sap quines maneres.

Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.

In an Englishwoman her abruptness would have been viewed as bad manners, but it was normal to afford Americans somewhat greater license. They talked, ate, dressed differently, were even different in bed so Urquhart had been told, although he had no firsthand experience.

To criticise inequality and to desire equality is not, as is sometimes suggested, to cherish the romantic illusion that men are equal in character and intelligence. It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in (social) organisation. R. H. Tawney1

There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…. The same reason that makes us bicker with a neighbor creates a war between princes.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.

I could go into some detail about the theological and class differences between the two groups but suffice it to say that Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian and P. T. Barnum a Universalist.

Of course, it is almost always the case that the couple has much more in common than they may suppose. But marriage seems to specialize, at times, in radically de-emphasizing the similarities between the partners and wildly exaggerating the points of difference.

Enemies are always the same, or become so with time, for they could not be enemies otherwise. It is those who actually differ among themselves who pose the greatest danger. They long to meet one another, because their differences do not bother them. And they are the worst. We and our enemies will combine forces to fight those who allow us to differ from them and do not let this difference disturb their sleep; we will destroy them in one fell swoop from three sides...

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles,ce n'est que les actions qui les découvrent différents

Apreender a diferença em termos dialéticos é tornar aparentes os termos contraditórios a serem resolvidos. Entender a realidade social em termos do materialismo dialético é apreender as oposições entre classes, termo a termo, e fazer com que se encontrem na mesma cópula (um conflito na ordem social), o que também configura uma resolução (uma abolição na ordem social) das contradições aparentes.

So much for their looks; but their characters - that is a much more difficult matter. We all have our quirks and no one is ever all bad. Then again, it is not possible for everyone to be all things all of the time: attractive, restrained, intelligent, tasteful and trustworthy. We are all different and it is often difficult to know on which aspect to dwell.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

The Western world will never understand the follies of the Eastern world, nor the East grasp the follies of their brothers and sisters in the West.

The reason history is fascinating is because people in other times and places are so like us. The reason history is difficult is because people in other times and places are so different from us. History is, to that extent, like marriage

It is of course possible to produce apparent 'parallels' to almost anything. There is after all only a limited range of things that one can say in any 'religion', and some statements, taken cold and out of context, will look a bit like other statements whose own setting would actually indicate significant differences.