Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The word philosophy, as distinguished from science, is misleading, for it implies that what philosophy contains is impossible to be a systematic… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder… — Marcus Aurelius 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
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell 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
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
