William James Quotes

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

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

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Can you tell the difference between them?

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

There is one radical distinction between different minds … that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the difference of things, others to mark their resemblances.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.

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.

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

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

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.