Difference

Difference may refer to:

  • Difference (philosophy), a key concept in continental philosophy
  • Difference (mathematics), a statement about the relative size or order of two objects
    • The result of arithmetic subtraction
    • Difference (set theory)
  • Difference (computer science), a concept in computer science
  • Difference (heraldry), any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family
  • Difference (album), a 2005 power metal album

Famous quotes containing the word difference:

    The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist madly in love with the past. It is that between the woodsman and the woodcarver. It is that between the mystic harking back to his vision and the artist whose first allegiance is to his craft, and so to the reality it presents.
    Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)

    I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don’t have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
    Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

    To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
    June Jordan (b. 1939)