A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and… — Sallust Copy Share Image
There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow Copy Share Image
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders… — Lowell Thomas Copy Share Image
