Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Interpretation
Diversity embraces different perspectives and the value of collective independent thought.
This quote highlights the importance of diversity by emphasizing that true innovation and wisdom arise when individuals think independently while collaborating with others. It suggests that the synthesis of different viewpoints leads to richer and more comprehensive understanding, ultimately benefiting society as a whole.
In practice
In a team meeting, to emphasize the importance of various viewpoints in solving complex problems.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
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