Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may… — Max De Pree
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to… — Benjamin Franklin
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the… — William O. Douglas
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what… — John Grierson
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much — Whitfield Diffie
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home! — Zhuangzi
There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction… — Gary L. Francione
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. — Ambrose Bierce
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. — Ambrose Bierce
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...… — Unknown Author
...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext… — Gottfried Leibniz
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory… — Gaston Bachelard
It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way… — Unknown Author
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just… — Pat Metheny
The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul. — Curt Sachs
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of… — Arthur Peacocke
The highest distinction is service to others. — Max Brooks
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation,… — John Polkinghorne
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own… — Hannah Arendt
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color. — Ernestine Rose
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm… — Ellen Langer
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains… — Charles Dickens
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,… — Huston Smith
The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial… — Thomas Jefferson
"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is… — Alan Watts

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