The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. — Edward Dowden Copy Share Image
We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
I'd walk into the school, smell that institutional smell of the tomato soup, peanut butter, disinfectant, and boys room. Pass the lunchroom,… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it. — Bradford Dillman Copy Share Image
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image