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 human vision and the image perceived by the faceted eye of an insect may be compared with the difference between a half-tone block made with the very finest screen and the corresponding picture as represented by the very coarse screening used in common newspaper pictorial reproduction. The same comparison holds good between the way Gogol saw things and the way average readers and average writers see things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“... if the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)