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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen R. Covey
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen R. Covey
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
James Surowiecki
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Herbert Hoover
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Differences challenge assumptions.
Anne Wilson Schaef
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.
Mahatma Gandhi
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Audre Lorde
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame De Stael
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
Diversity creates dimension in the world.
Elizabeth Ann Lawless
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
Thomas Jefferson
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity.They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Herbert Hoover
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship.
Deborah Tannen
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
Isaac Asimov
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
Theodore Roosevelt
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
Kevin Smith
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Tony Robbins
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
One must even beware of too much certainty that the answer to life's problems can only be found in one way and that all must agree to search for light in the same way and cannot find it in any other way.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
Leo Tolstoy
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evan Hughes
There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
Michel de Montaigne
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
