Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific… — David Lack
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror!… — Gerard De Nerval
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who… — Booker T. Washington
Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed… — Ayn Rand
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough… — Humphry Davy
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. — Thomas Paine
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human… — Anatole France
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — Charles Caleb Colton
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has… — Samuel Johnson
The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by… — Thucydides
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction… — M. Scott Peck
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference: — Ken Keyes Jr.
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer

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