Top 1200 Individual Differences Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

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

The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

Although the language of North Korea and South Korea is similar, there are big differences in the vocabulary.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

When the U.S. asks for the extradition of a terrorist, if Turkey doesn't have that individual on the terror list, what do we say, what do we respond? Now, the individual might not be on your terror list or terrorist list. But if he is on my list, and if we have an agreement on the extradition of criminals, if I make the request, then, well, you should extradite that person. And there has been numerous examples of that mechanism working with many other nations as well, not just the U.S.

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

There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.

We believe in a better world, an unglobalised world, enriched by the cultural differences and customs of all the people.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.

Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.

I would like to play with Messi; it would be amazing. He is the best of the world, the one who makes more differences.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

People want to believe that love conquers all and that differences can be worked out, and I do believe that, too.

Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

Too many of us still believe our differences define us.

To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.