#Difference Quotes

“I'll teach you differences.”

“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”

“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”

“An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.”

“The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.”

“Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.”

“One man's ceiling is another man's floor.”

“The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.”

“Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.”

“There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.”

“…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?”

“Women are an alien race set down among us.”

“What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.”

“All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.”

“Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.”

“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.”

“a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.”

“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”

“Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.”

“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”

“Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”