Distinguished Quotes

296 quotes by 230 authors

Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with… — Kate Chopin
Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a… — Ernst Haeckel
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult… — Asger Jorn
A unitary urbanism â€” the synthesis of art and technology that we call for â€” must be constructed according to certain new values of life,… — Gil J Wolman
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There… — Wendell Phillips
Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity… — Sheila Jackson Lee
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so… — Marcellin Berthelot
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is… — Arthur C. Clarke
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained… — Leonhard Euler
The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished one… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the… — Theodor Adorno
The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have… — Elias Lyman Magoon
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not â€˜live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and… — Charles Simeon
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. — George William Curtis
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor… — Francois Fenelon
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by… — Ambrose Bierce
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness… — Ambrose Bierce

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