Quotes About Diversity

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Eu sou vários! Há multidões em mim. Na mesa de minha alma sentam-se muitos, e eu sou todos eles. Há um velho, uma criança, um sábio, um tolo. Você nunca saberá com quem está sentado ou quanto tempo permanecerá com cada um de mim. Mas prometo que, se nos sentarmos à mesa, nesse ritual sagrado eu lhe entregarei ao menos um dos tantos que sou, e correrei os riscos de estarmos juntos no mesmo plano.

Go your ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!- gloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glints any more!

Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.

Rule? Press my type on others? Dreadful. Is not my happiness precisely the sight of many who are different ?

My wisdom consists in my having been many things and in many places in order to become one person—in order to be able to attain to one thing.

May heaven have mercy on the European intellect if one wanted to subtract the Jewish intellect from it.

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

Au existat pân? acum o mie de scopuri, c?ci au existat o mie de popoare. Doar lanÅ£ul pe cele-o mie de capete lipseÅŸte, lipseÅŸte înc? un singur scop. Umanitatea n-are înc? scop. Dar spuneÅ£i-mi, voi, fraÅ£i ai mei: dac? umanit??ii îi lipseÅŸte scopul, nu-nseamn? oare c? ea îns??i nu exist? înc??

know how to employ the diversity of perspectives and emotional interpretations for the advancement of knowledge.

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion ... let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

I think when more men get out among the stars, people are going to realize that we can't afford to think of ourselves as anything other than citizens of Mother Earth. In the face of the universe, of Moonmen, of the inhabitants of the millions of other planets that must exist, our national differences seem so small, so much a private family matter as not to be thrashed out in the public of our interstellar neighbors. I think it's good we are brothers. All men are brothers.

Reduce man to a single type and he is certain to succumb, sooner or later, to the inevitable disaster that his one type cannot cope with.

God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

religious leaders have agreed not to disagree and those beliefs for which some of our ancestors would have died they have melted into a spineless Humanism.

Those who call black black and white white are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.

La palabra mestizaje significa mezclar las lágrimas con la sangre que corre. ¿Qué puede esperarse de semejante brebaje?.

We're all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.