"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Edward de Bono, English Psychologist

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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

Manfred Eigen, German Scientist

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"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."

Robert Musil, Austrian Writer

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"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

Rebecca H. Davis, American Author

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"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist

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

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

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"There's a big difference between sanity and insanity."

Megan Gallagher, American Actress

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"I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference."

Lydia Lunch, American Musician

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"You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference."

Kelli White, American Athlete

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"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."

Maurice Strong, Canadian Businessman

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"The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body."

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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

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"The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth."

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"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

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"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

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"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."

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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

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

"There's a big difference between sanity and insanity."

"I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference."

"You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference."

"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."

Explore more quotes by William Hazlitt

"The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body."

"We must be doing something to be happy."

"Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours)."

"Words are the only things that last for ever."

"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

"The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth."

"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."