Quotes About Diversity

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

We are for religion against the religions.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

Imagine others complexly.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Each is great in his own place, but the duty of one is not the duty of the other.

am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.

If one religion true, then all the others also must be true. Thus the Hindu faith is yours as much as mine.

Inequality is the very basis of creation. At the same time the forces struggling to obtain equality are as much a necessity of creation as those which destroy it.

if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realise the Divinity within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formularies help you to realise the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, and whatever temples, and whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward, towards the brutes.

Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid. The

if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: "Help and not Fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension." 1.2

And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard.

They Laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at them because they all are the same.

As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee." The