This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Hippocrates, fully known as Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos NULL
One may derive information from the regimen of persons in good health what things are proper; for if it appear that there is a great difference whether the diet be so and so, in other respects, but more especially in the changes, how can it be otherwise in diseases, and more especially in the acute? But it is well ascertained that even a faulty diet of food and drink steadily persevered in, is safer in the main as regards health than if one suddenly change to another.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Perseverance | Will |
John Holt, fully John Caldwell Holt
[We] can best understand learning as growth, an expanding of ourselves into the world around us. We can also see that there is no difference between living and learning, that living is learning, that it is impossible, and misleading, and harmful to think of them as being separate.
Growth | Learning | World | Think | Understand |
The difference between reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
John Foster, fully John Watson Foster
All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain. The difference between false and true pleasure is this; for the true, the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoyed it.
If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both.
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 |