Differences Quotes

“While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“It's the imperfections that make something beautiful. That's what makes it different and unique from everything else.”
― Bob Ross, Happy Little Accidents: The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Ross

“I'm sorry, Father," Kaladin said.
"Sorry? For... for what?"
"I thought your way might be correct," Kaladin said. "And that I'd been wrong. But I don't think it's that simple. I think we're both correct. For us.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“People's minds are all so different. All capable of different things.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“For while the Vedas say, 'truth is one, paths are many', the differences among those paths are not inconsequential.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism

“The right to be different, whether by choice or necessity, is our greatest right as human beings. And dealing with differences is the greatest of all human challenges. People react anxiously and fearfully to differences. We learn to hate, glorify, deny, exaggerate, or eradicate a difference.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self

“The right to be different, whether by choice or necessity, is our greatest right as human beings. And dealing with differences is the greatest of all human challenges. People react anxiously and fearfully to differences. We learn to hate, glorify, deny, exaggerate, or eradicate a difference. Or we try to get comfortable by shaming the different person or group.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self

“Human beings are so much more than mere color. If we cannot see beyond superficial differences we do not perceive our endless similarities.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“I learned that identical emotions do not spring up in the hearts of all men simultaneously, by a pre-established order. Later on I discovered that, whenever I had read for too long and was in a mood for conversation, the friend to whom I would be burning to say something would at that moment have finished indulging himself in the delights of conversation, and wanted nothing now but to be left to read undisturbed.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“They were like a bright golden coin, those two, two sides, different images on each, one value.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan

“Wisdom is not judging others by superficial differences but noting the almost endless similarity that all humans share.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Reader of dead words who would live deeds, this is the flowering of my logic: I dream of a world of infinitive and valuable variety; not in the laws of gravity or atomic weights, but in human variety in height and weight, color and skin, hair and nose and lip. But more especially and far above and beyond this, is a realm of true freedom: in thought and dream, fantasy and imagination; in gift, aptitude, and genius—all possible manner of difference, topped with freedom of soul to do and be, and freedom of thought to give to a world and build into it, all wealth of inborn individuality. Each effort to stop this freedom of being is a blow at democracy—that real democracy which is reservoir and opportunity . . . There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even Peace.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

“We don't need to see eye to eye with everyone, we just need to accept the fact that the world is big enough for more than one pair of eyes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Instead of picking on each other's mistake, let us be human across intellect and faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Girl Over God: The Novel

“The smell of oak and barbecue permeate the air around the small house. Delfina uses oak for her barbecue and Mom (and me) always used hickory. People said that you could tell where North Star was solely based on the competing smells that met in the air just above the town. That little weevil of an idea pops back up. Our plot of land. It's still there.”
― Liza Palmer, Nowhere But Home

“Differences don't make a society fall, indifference does.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“We enrich ourselves by learning from those who are most different to us.”
― Margo Vader, Take A Little Soul Time

“It’s a life that he clung on to and one that she was eager to let go.”
― Krystalle Bianca, Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).

“Others look different to us, because we are distant, the moment we get close to them, we'd discover that the differences are either inconsequential or an illusion altogether.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, The Duties of American Citizenship

“New blood severs old ties.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Oh, what a difference a few months can make!”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“All peoples are more the same than they are different. We all mostly want the same things out of life, but those slight differences generate emotion, and emotion generates a sense of importance. Therefore, we come to perceive our differences as disproportionally more important than our similarities. And this is the true tragedy of man, that we are doomed to perpetual conflict over the slight difference.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“How may it be possible to live in harmony in the midst of distinctions among humanity?”
― Pamela R. Lightsey, Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology

“Those girls are not the opposite of me. We are perpendicular. We may be on different paths, yes. But there's a place where we touch, where we connect and are just the same.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“The very scale of the efforts made to exterminate the Other is testimony to the Other's indestructibility, and by extension to the indestructible totality of Otherness.
Such is the power of this idea, and such is the power of the facts.
Radical otherness survives everything: conquest, racism, extermination, the virus of difference, the psychodrama of alienation. On the one hand, the Other is always-already dead; on the other hand, the Other is indestructible.
This is the Great Game.
The ultimate inscrutability of beings, as of peoples.
Segalen: 'The inscrutability of races, which is merely the extension to races of the inscrutability of individuals.'
The survival of exoticism depends entirely on the impossibility of encounter, fusion and the exchange of differences. Fortunately, all this is an illusion - the illusion of subjectivity itself.
All that endures is the foreignness of the foreigner, the irredeemability of the object.
No psychology: psychology is always the worst way to go.
Avoid all psychological, ideological and moral forms of the Other - eschew the metaphor of the Other, the Other as metaphor.
Seek the Other's 'cruelty', the Other's unintelligibility, the Other as spectre: constrain the Other to foreignness, violate the Other in his foreignness.
Running to ground of metaphor: sublime form of metaphorical violation.
Radical anti-ethnology, anti-universalism, anti-differentialism.
Radical exoticism versus the pimping of differences.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“The heart beats the same way, no matter the geography.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“It means I see and experience the world a bit differently from people who aren't autistic, but that's not necessarily bad- while things can sometimes feel difficult, I wouldn't change who I am for the world. It's made me who I am!”
― Lucy Powrie, Bookishly Ever After

“It is that in nearly every human psychological characteristic, men and women overlap. This means that in most cases the differences within the sexes are bigger than the differences between the sexes.”
― Hal Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

“Broken am I, broken are you, when broken together, we are each other's glue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World