Quotes About Diversity

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

Si buscas resultados distintos, no hagas siempre lo mismo.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Svako je genijalac. Me?utim ako prosu?uješ ribu na osnovu njene sposobnosti da se penje uz drvo ona ?e ceo život provesti u ube?enju da je glupa.

Ognuno è un genio. Ma se si giudica un pesce dalla sua abilità di arrampicarsi sugli alberi lui passerà tutta la sua vita a credersi stupido.

Don't judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree.

Peu d'être sont capables d'exprimer posément une opinion différente des préjugés de leur milieu. La plupart des êtres sont même incapables d'arriver à formuler une.

Amerikalilar Almanlardan daha az egitimli olsalar bile onlarda daha fazla cosku ve enerji var; bu da yeni fikirlerin insanlar arasinda daha genis bir bicimde yayilmasini sagliyor.

Almanyadaki semitizm karsitliginin ayni zaman bir Yahudi acisindan bakildiginda da hos karsilanmasi gereken somuclari var. Bana kalirsa alman yahudileri, surekli varliklarini, semitizm karsitligina borclular... Bu ayrim olmadan Almanyadaki yahudilerin asimilasyonu cabucak ve engelsiz gerceklesirdi.

If you tell a fish you can't climb a tree, then it will think he/she is dumb forever

Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

Sin personalidades creativas que piensen por sí mismas es impensable el desarrollo de la comunidad.

We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.

What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflective few, not so much in the essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied.

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.

Was andere als unsere Errungenschaften betrachten, ist oft nicht das, was wir selbst so sehen.

Ésa es la riqueza y la dificultad de la literatura: que no es un dogma.

I am interested in everything,' interrupted Gumbril Junior. 'Which comes to the same thing,' said his father parenthetically, 'as being interested in nothing.

The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity and compassion, based upon the old familiar fact, lately rediscovered by modern psychiatry - the fact that, whatever their mental and physical diversity, love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; and finally the values of intelligence, without which love is impotent and freedom unattainable.