Quotes about Difference

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

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

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. Notebook When

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

The tensions created inside me by the contradictions is another source of energy and learning. I have always known I learn my most lasting lessons about difference by closely attending the ways in which the differences inside me lie down together.

Each of us struggles daily with the pressures of conformity and the loneliness of difference from which those choices seem to offer escape.

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Thus there is a difference between having an opinion that God is holy and gracious, and having a sense of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace. There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Many charismatics do not know the difference between legalism and self-discipline.