I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished. — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy 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
Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“ Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road.… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination.… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but… — Pericles Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
