Richard Henry Tawney Quotes

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

For the most part, I don't think I'm any different than anybody else.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive.

We are all unique in our ways, but celebrating together makes us all the same.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

The wise are wise only because they love.

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

Humility is always proof of intelligence

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.