Hatred obscures all distinctions.

The language that reveals also obscures.

— Wendell Berry

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

— Andre Gide

“Familiarity obscures surprises”

— Israel O. Olaniran

But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky.

— HG Wells

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

— Whitfield Diffie

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of…

— Cassandra Clare

I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same -…

— Wayne Thiebaud

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons…

— George Sand

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes…

— Virgilia Peterson

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

— Jonah Goldberg

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

— Fanny Kemble

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

— Anonymous