Distinguished Quotes

296 quotes by 230 authors

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. — Felix Klein
As for that footage, video footage showing the dead children allegedly killed in the chemical attack, it is horrible. The question is only who did… — Vladimir Putin
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized… — John Maynard Keynes
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and… — James Clerk Maxwell
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. — Edward Gibbon
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished… — Alexander Hamilton
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly… — Charles Darwin
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing… — Unknown Author
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are… — Barbara Brown Taylor
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion.… — George Washington
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men… — Thomas Paine
The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is… — Carl Jung
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression — Amos Bronson Alcott
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts… — Ambrose Bierce
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient… — Sigmund Freud
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted… — Unknown Author
Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it… — Joel Garreau
In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished,… — Don Berliner

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