"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

Difference, Understanding

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"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Difference, Rest

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

James Thurber, American Comedian

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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Difference, Empathy, Understanding, Perspective

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

George Eliot, British Author

Difference, Jokes, Taste

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Our differences are the real treasures."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

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"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."

Wrong

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."

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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

Time

"In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow."

Society

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Failure

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."

People

"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."

Tax

"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."

Chance

"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."

People

"The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."

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