Similarity Quotes

• Our similarities bring us to a common ground;
  Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.

  Tom Robbins

  Differences, Common, Fascinated

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• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  M. Scott Peck

  Soulmate, Acceptance, Differences

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• We are more alike than unalike.

  Maya Angelou

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• We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

  Virginia Satir

  Differences, Together, Bases

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

  Emil Ludwig

  Friendship, Real, Two

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• Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

  Theodor Adorno

  Love, Love Is, Romance

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.191, Verso

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• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration

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• When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.

  Garrison Wynn

  Differences, Looks, Barriers

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• Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

  Matt Lauer

  Funny, Marijuana, Two

  "The hard shell" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2006.

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• All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Differences, Different

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, p.266, Encounter Books

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• In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Differences, Stories

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Equality, Differences

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• Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Differences, People, Perception

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world.

  Youngme Moon

  Two, Differences, World

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• The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Differences, Way

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

  Aristotle

  Perception, Genius, Talent

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Differences, Oppression, Oppressors

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Christian, Spiritual Wisdom

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• The wounded recognized the wounded.

  Nora Roberts

  Recognition, Recognizing, Recognise

  Nora Roberts (2006). “The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1”, p.309, Penguin

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• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

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• Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.

  Elliott Sober

  Ideas, Littles, Ancestry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world

  Artie Lange

  Guy, Boss, World

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• There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cells, Hands, Two

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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