Virginia Woolf Quotes

Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

...When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict.

To me, the fundamental thing - well, I guess I see a lot of people debating in the wrong way. A lot of the debate is, should we go to the coasts, should we go to the center, should we go to the left, should we go to the right?

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

I think he [Tony LaRussa] legitimately believes what he says. I don't agree with him. But I think he's being as honest as he can be.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

It's amazing the difference A bit of sky can make.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.