Distinguished Quotes

296 quotes by 239 authors

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,… — Samuel Johnson
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial… — John Playfair
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes… — Karl Popper
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. — John Sergeant Wise
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me,… — Saint Patrick
I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers… — Jean Larteguy
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole!… — Marcus Aurelius
I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old… — William Crawford Williamson
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The… — Isaac Todhunter
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and… — Albert Lutuli
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts… — Richard Overy
One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together!… — Fred Reinfeld

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