To think is to differ.
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.
It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U. S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.
All people are the same; only their habits differ.
All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and that intelligence, as well as less controversial traits of temperament, are in large part hereditary.
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues.
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.
Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create new methods and styles that differ in structure, form, and content from the past.
In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
Sects differ more in name than tenets.
