Cannot Distinguish Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
— Peter Singer
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly…
— Northrop Frye
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn,…
— Dorothy Parker
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People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
— Brian Reynolds Myers
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The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have…
— David Rosenhan
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us…
— Carl Sagan
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long…
— William Faulkner
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With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish what…
— Stephen Hawking
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Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when…
— James Gleick
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