Difference - Quotes
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
What`s morality? It`s the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.
What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks `Where`s my share?` A man creates, a parasite says `What will the neighbors think?` A man invents, a parasite says `Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God..."
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
What smells is decay. But when something starts decaying, it’s on its way to becoming a part of something new. And the new that’s created smells good. So it makes no difference whether something smells good or bad, it’s all just a part of life’s eternal round dance.
Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you`d start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
The important thing is to make some sort of difference [...] You know, actually change something. [...] Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
On a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won`t.
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.