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Quotes About Diversity

There never were two opinions alike in all the world, no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
~ Will Rogers
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.
~ S. L. Clemens
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
~ T. S. Eliot
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
~ Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.
~ Henri Bourassa
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A finished person is a boring person.
~ Anna Quindlen
Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
~ Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
~ Victor Hugo
One man's meat is another's poison.
~ English proverb
The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .
~ Joseph Gies
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
~ James Baldwin
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
~ Mark Twain
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
~ Pearl Buck
India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
~ Winston Churchill
God hath made of one blood all nations of men.
~ Anonymous
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.
~ Voltaire
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
~ John Andrew Holmes
In almost any society, I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as, and no better than that of the conformists.
~ Margaret Mead
What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.
~ Anonymous
Every man must get to heaven his own way.
~ Frederick The Great
There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.
~ Evelyn Mandel
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
~ William Ellery Channing