This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is a large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.
Delay | Impatience | Labor |
On every subject on which difference of opinion is possible, the truth depends on a balance to be struck between two sets of conflicting reasons.
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
A difference of opinion, though in the merest trifles, alienates little minds.
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom
The only difference between martial and marital is where you put the `i’.
What is wrong with difference is not difference, but man's reluctance to allow and encourage it, and to cultivate it creatively.
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
Philosophy | Gossip |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
The metaphysician looks at truth from within to without. That is why they clash. But realized souls who understand science as well as metaphysics find no difference at all. They see the parallelism between science and truth because they see the whole picture.
Looks | Metaphysics | Science | Truth | Understand |
Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
There is a great difference between the mind and the body, inasmuch as the body is by its very nature always divisible, while the mind is utterly indivisible.