Differ Quotes

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. (Albert Einstein)
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. View quote
Petrarch
Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. View quote
Joseph Addison
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
Alexander Pope
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. View quote
Frances Wright
When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data. View quote
Henry M. Morris
Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. (José Martí)
Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. View quote
Horace Mann
My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
He who steadily observes the moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ – radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ – what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer. View quote
Jefferson Davis
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own. (Philip Johnson)
Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Whatever part of the animal fabric-whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison-the result would be the same-the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
In my view, what is wanted in industrial organization is a direct approach to the problem. This would concentrate on what activities firms undertake, and would endeavor to discover the characteristics of the groupings of activities within firms. Which activities tend to be associated and which do not? The answer may well differ for different kinds of firm. View quote
Ronald Coase
For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink. View quote
Zooey Deschanel