Distinction Quotes · Page 12

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

We've got to continue to find ways to honor our 25 million veterans that have served our country with such honor and distinction.

— Zach Wamp

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good…

— Mark Haddon

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

— Anonymous

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into…

— Henri Matisse

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

— Josh Billings

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge…

— Catharine Sedgwick

Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an…

— Rajneesh

“In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known…

— Ambrose Bierce

All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other…

— Olympe de Gouges

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction…

— Plutarch

Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have…

— Frederick Lenz

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the…

— Matthea Harvey

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction…

— Frederick Lenz

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather…

— Harold Ramis

Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand,…

— Ellen Langer

Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic…

— Pope John Paul II

Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s…

— Anonymous

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey…

— Mark Twain

I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them…

— Philip Glass

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature,…

— Sidney Hook

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

— Marshall McLuhan

Everything I do is true to the person I am. To me, there's not too much distinction between Elias and my former…

— Elias

Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

— Romola Garai

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

— Quentin Crisp

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who…

— Barbara Jordan

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

— Robert Fulghum

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

— Don Watson

“When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.”

— George Washington Carver

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

— Bruce Sterling

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

— Janet Echelman

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

— John George Nicolay

Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

— Grant Morrison

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

— John Searle

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet…

— Stephen Vincent Benet