Quotes About Diversity

We cannot conceive of a greater difference than between the life of one man and that of another.

This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. . . . When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

If a man doesn't keep pace with his companions, perhaps it's because he hears a different drummer.

This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center.

This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.

If a man does not march in step to his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

The world is divided into two sorts of people: those who think the world is divided into two sorts of people and those who don't.

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

Things are always different from what they might be.

the house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced , or is still pierceable, in its vast front , by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will.

One has not the alternative of speaking of London as a whole, for the simple reason that there is no such thing as the whole of it. It is immeasurable—embracing arms never meet. Rather it is a collection of many wholes, and of which of them is it most important to speak?

I like so many things! If a thing strikes me with a certain intensity I accept it. I don't want to swagger, but I suppose I'm rather versatile.

Oh they're every one—all sorts and sizes; of course I mean within limits, though limits down perhaps rather more than limits up. There are always artists—he's beautiful and inimitable to the cher confrère; and then gros bonnets of many kinds—ambassadors, cabinet ministers, bankers, generals, what do I know? even Jews. Above

Goethe recommended seeing human nature in the most various forms, and Mr. Babcock thought Goethe perfectly splendid.

him—ce genie-la. Every nation has its own ideals of every

I have never studied; I have had no training. I do a little of everything, and nothing well. I am only an amateur. (Chapter 5)

She has such variety and yet such harmony.

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

If you elect to join the herd you are immune. To be accepted and appreciated you must nullify yourself, make yourself indistinguishable from the herd. You may dream, if you dream alike. But if you dream something different, you are not in America, of America American, but a Hottentot in Africa, or a Kalmuck, or a chimpanzee. The moment you have a different thought you cease to be an American. And the moment you become something different you find yourself in Alaska or Easter Island or Iceland.

Cuando pienso en algunos persas, los hindúes, los árabes que conocí, cuando pienso en el carácter de que daban muestras, en su gracia, en su ternura, en su inteligencia, en su santidad, escupo a los conquistadores blancos, los degenerados británicos, los testarudos alemanes, los relamidos y presumidos franceses.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.