Quotes About Diversity

Although there may be ten thousand different forms of the Buddhist teachings, the different schools and different systems are merely different faces of the one reality.

MI theory makes its greatest contribution to education by suggesting that teachers need to expand their repertoire of techniques, tools, and strategies beyond the typical Word Smart and Number/Logic Smart abilities predominantly tapped in U.S. classrooms.

First, You must know that every man cannot be excellent, yet every man may be useful. An iron key may unlock the door with a golden treasure behind it; yes, iron can do some things that gold cannot.

Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

The human mind is simply not able to grasp this terrible truth: a nation was transformed into a killing machine programmed to destroy millions of innocent people for no reason other than that they were different.

characters as rich and complex as those we believe ourselves to be

Literary works are not democracies. We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. We may, but the country of Novels, Etc., doesn't. In that faraway place, no character is created equal. One or two of them get all the breaks; the rest exist to get them to the finish line.

Sameness doesn't present us with metaphorical possibilities, whereas difference - from the average, the typical, the expected - is always rich with possibility.

We need to come out of our silos. Open the doors and come out into the air and the light. Hack through a wall and make a door if necessary. Expand our horizons. Understand that divergent viewpoints can be valid. That sympathetic viewpoints can be false. And that we need to be able to discern the difference.

Because people vary and because averages matter, there may be no sustainable critical mass; and the unravelling behavior, or initial failure to get the activity going at all, has much the appearance of a critical mass that is almost but not quite achieved. This is therefore a kindred but separate family of models.

The observed outcome may be one that everybody prefers, it may be one that nobody prefers, or it may be one that some prefer and others deplore.

The real purpose of religion—at the popular level—was to unify the populace. Let everyone worship his favorite god in some niche or other, but let's all sacrifice at the same altar, climb the same steps, and wander through the same colonnades. Let the Jews have their god, by all means—who's stopping them?—and let us all have ours. And no provincial exclusiveness, please.

Ambiance raciale : les Arméniens, vieux habitants du quartier, contribuant à sa dimension de palimpseste des peuples, augmentent mon plaisir (et mon argument) d'habiter le 10e : c'est la France que j'aime, réelle, hétérogène. Que les Arméniens puissent cohabiter tranquillement avec les Turcs, les Juifs avec les Arabes, etc., définit l'ancien idéal républicain de coexistence des contraires.

Vitoria and his allies believed that natural law existed not just among Christians but among all peoples.

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

We must recognize that our view of the world is just that - a view that has been shaped by our own vantage point, history, and idiosyncratic knowledge.

Most parents hate to experience conflict, are deeply troubled when it occurs, and are quite confused about how to handle it constructively. Actually, it would be a rare relationship if over a period of time one person's needs did not conflict with the other's. When any two people (or groups) coexist, conflict is bound to occur just because people are different, think differently, have different needs and wants that sometimes do not match.

I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!

though the whole troop wore white garments, no two whites were alike amoung them. Some approached pure blanching, some had a bluish pallor; some worn by the older characters (which has possibly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadavourous tint, and to a georgian style.

The thought of Pascal's was brought home to him: "A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il y a plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

You didn't draw a freak. You drew a man with a freak on his back. Nothing wrong with you, kid.

Spoken like a Protestant.