Quotes About Divergence

It's never easy to switch from one football to another one, from one culture, one language to a new one.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.

that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.

The differences between East and West seem to have been continually on the increase, but this divergence can be said to have been one-sided, in the sense that it is only the West which has changes, whereas the East, broadly speaking, has remained much the same as it was in times which we are accustomed to call ancient, but which nevertheless are comparatively recent.

The beaten path can be a busy and distracting place.

Baldrick, we are about as similar as two...dis-similar things in a pod!

ecosystems tend towards diversity, and markets do the opposite

It is bizarre to treat all differences as oppositions

as if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel

Everyone's life is interesting, if it's different from your own.

You don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas

You know that we English are not all the same, though, don't you?

There's nothing worse for a forest than to have all the trees be the same

some historians now say there is no single history at all—just a multitude of histories, one for each region, language, family, industry, class, and race.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

No two people see things the same.

…We feel different things. We like different things. It's like they say with books, no two people ever read the same book. It's the same with music, yo.

You can never attain full awareness following the actions of the majority.

NAXALT" fallacy, for "Not All [X] Are Like That." The NAXALT fallacy is the mistaken belief that because someone in the group lies at the extreme, the average does not exist.

La divergence entre l'Homme et les Chimpanzés, ou entre l'Homme et le couple Chimpanzé-Gorille, ne date que de 7 millions d'années environ

Being human and being intelligent are separate matters.

There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.