Quotes About Individual Differences

#1. This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

Norman Lamm

#2. This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.

Charles Darwin

#3. We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

Neem Karoli Baba

#5. The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

Arthur Jensen

#6. There are naturally large individual differences in the chemical makeup of people's saliva.

Mary Roach

#7. Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

James Bryant Conant

#8. Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

#9. The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Andy Rooney

#10. In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated by the most rigid curriculum, and that various individuals will choose different educational curricula if allowed to do so.

Carl Eckart

#11. The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

William P. Leahy

#12. Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.

Sandra Scarr

#13. One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.

Gary F. Marcus

#14. Following Locke's doctrine that the mind is a tabula rasa, Helvetius considered the differences between individuals entirely due to differences of education: in every individual, his talents and his virtues are the effect of his instruction.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

Jane Goodall

#16. If you believe in practising generosity of spirit, at heart you believe in the power of an individual to make a difference and at heart you treat individuals with deep respect and want to see others flourish.

Gail Kelly

#17. There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

Cornel West

#18. I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

Vladimir Nabokov

#19. The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

Oliver DeMille

#20. The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

#21. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

J. Philippe Rushton

#22. If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

Bill Vaughan

#23. Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

Mike Ferguson

#24. By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.

Charles Francis Richter

#25. The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

M. Scott Peck

#26. Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

Michael Gove

#27. The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

Seth

#28. Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.

Richard Branson

#29. Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

Scott E. Page

#30. Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.

Karen Kimsey-House

#31. Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment

Ian Kiernan

#32. Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.

Frederick Lenz

#33. We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective.

Esther Hicks

#34. A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#35. One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!

Jane Goodall

#36. Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual ... but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

Edward R. Murrow

#37. When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.

Neva Coyle

#38. It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#39. Every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

Jane Goodall

#40. As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

Brendan Dooling