#differences

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#humanity #life #maturity #space-exploration #star-trek

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know? ↗

— John Green

#love #love

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#conditioning #cultural-differences #foresight #hindsight #motivational-quotes

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor. ↗

— Sean Covey

#fruit-salad #originality #teen

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#consists #differences #discrimination #tact

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#hand #other #realization #reconciliation #society

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#differences #important #most #object #perceived

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#also #better #certain #condition #conditions

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#bowl #country #differences #different #different things

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#differences #families #family #go #hoping