The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“...paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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