Difference

Famous quotes containing the word difference:

    “It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children’s social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.”
    —Zick Rubin (20th century)