Quotes About Difference

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

Es ist die Angst vor der Frage, wie weit ich entfernt bin von dem, was er ist. Ob wir uns im Wesen unterscheiden oder nur im Stadium.

It is a fact increasingly manifest that presentation of real news has sharpened the minds and the judgment of men and women everywhere in these days of real public discussion. We Americans begin to know the difference between the truth on the one side and the falsehood on the other, no matter how often the falsehood is iterated and reiterated. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

In other words, what is salient to us—such as our own facial features—may not be salient to other species.

There is in fact no data demonstrating that men are more hierarchical than women. The only difference one study reported is that when people are put together in same-gender groups, men settle on a rank order more quickly than women. Women do eventually always form one, however.

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. —Charles Darwin (1871)

Charles Darwin's well-known observation that the mental difference between humans and other animals is one of degree rather than kind.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy strike the inner ear differently from those of pain.

We know that the difference between a heliocentric theory and a geocentric theory is one of relative motion only, and that such a difference has no physical significance. [Astronomy and Cosmology - A Modern Course. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman & Co]

Too many companies these days are like AOL back then. They want to make the most of their innovations. They want to build a great brand with world-class loyalty. But they can't tell the difference between good profits and bad. As a result, they let themselves get hooked on bad profits.

Out of difference can come the reinforcement of two important values. One is tolerance and the other is awareness that people who disagree over the things they hold dear really can live together in love and respect.

Si vous n'êtes plus capable de faire la différence entre Laura et une image, je vous plains, monsieur Valence. La vie ne doit pas être marrante.

I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.

Law and Charity Are Not the Same

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.

Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.

I'm Teoish," Sarene said, successfully spearing something that looked like a marinated piece of shrimp. "We're all this tall." "Father's Teoish too, Kaise," Daorn said. "And you know how tall he is." "But father's fat," Kaise pointed out. "Why aren't you fat too, Sarene?

They're afraid of our ability to hear the stars. [...] And to them it makes us alien.

You were supposed to be different. You-" "Why?" Dalinar asked, standing calmly. "Why what?" Kaladin snapped. "Why am I different?" "Because you don't throw us away!" Kaladin shouted. "Because you... because..." Because you care about your men.

Adolin might claim he was a different from his father, but in fact they were two shades of the same paint. Often, two similar colors clashed worse than wildly different ones would.

I like cutting off toes," Tonk Fah noted. "That's different," Denth said. "You wouldn't do it simply because your contract ran out, would you?" "Nah," Tonk Fah said. "Toes is toes.