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Quotes About Diversity

It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.
~ Ban Ki-moon
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
~ Jimmy Wales
It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.
~ Kim Chernin
I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.
~ Malcolm Goodwin
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
~ Jose Marti
There's so much music out there, and so many different styles that I've been influenced by, so each album reflects some of that knowledge or influence that I've had.
~ John Legend
Ten lands are sooner known than one man.
~ Old saying
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Out of Africa, there is always something new.
~ Pliny the Elder
We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.
~ Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
We might not be equal in what we know but we are equal in what we do not know.
~ Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.
~ Francois Rabelais
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
~ James Russell Lowell
It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness
~ Tom Izzo
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
~ Angela Ahrendts
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.
~ Tony Dungy
Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible
~ Jack Ma
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
~ William J. Clinton
There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.
~ Mike Huckabee
America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.
~ Mike Huckabee
We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.
~ Andy Hargreaves