Indian Proverb Quotes

Difference is of the essence of humanity.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

I subscribe to the belief that there is no progress possible anywhere where the differences of people are stifled, their voices not able to be heard, and where they all speak as one voice, when all of us know that human beings don't feel that way.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

We will have differences. Even in our own country we do not see everything alike. If we did, we would all want the same wife—and that would be a problem, wouldn't it!

… cultural pride can turn, too often, into an endeavor to normalize one's culture. The quest for identity can then become an exclusionary process - so that we define ourselves less by what we are FOR and more by whom we are AGAINST. When this happens, diversity turns quickly from a source of beauty to a cause of discord.

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

Each and every Dutchman has his own manner of thinking, his own manners and habits, usage and speech.

We all have our opinions; that's only human.

The NFL is made up of 1,800 players, guys from different religious backgrounds, different upbringings. I love Peyton Manning. But I don't want 1,800 Peyton Mannings in the NFL.

People have different mentalities, different loves.

It takes all sorts of people to make the world.

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

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

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.