Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

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
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without… — Ravi Zacharias
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary… — Samuel Johnson
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… — Samuel Johnson
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus… — Arthur Eddington
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object… — Frederic Bastiat
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I… — Jacob Bronowski
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is… — Louis Pasteur

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