Differences Quotes

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain

Lie, Between, Lives

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda

Everything, Secret, Degree

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

Family, Mistakes, Feelings

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy

End, Help, Cannot

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater

Time, Equality, Liberty

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde

Accept, Celebrate, Divide

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

War, End, Between

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S. Truman

Work, Peace, Down

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
Hillary Clinton

Find, Diversity, Debate

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.
Mitt Romney

Different, Sometimes, Service

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together, Learn, Purpose

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver

Life, Everything, Here

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Give, Become

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Andy Rooney

Men, Business, Young

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
James Russell Lowell

Men, Themselves, Belief

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.
Colin Powell

Time, Enemy, Opinion

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
Temple Grandin

Parenting, Emotional, Bad

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Science, Today, Cannot

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
E. O. Wilson

Between, Religious, Creation

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
George W. Bush

Peace, Free, While

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide

Great, Respect, Through

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Theodor Adorno

Society, State, Hand

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
Michael J. Fox

Marriage, Work, Together

Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.
Steve Martin

Today, Industry, Shows

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
Kiefer Sutherland

Women, Men, Sexy

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno

Conscious, Tact, Consists

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
Ani DiFranco

Strength, Between, Comfort

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden

Friends, Opinion, Between

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck

Share, Celebrate

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reason, Respects

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