Distinguished Quotes

296 Distinguished quotes by 230 unique authors

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and… — Amos Oz
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we… — Mark Twain
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so… — Rene Descartes
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. — Hannah Arendt
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for… — Lisa Kleypas
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's… — Albert Einstein
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man… — Edgar Allan Poe
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course,… — Jincy Willett
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I… — Charles Dickens
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he… — Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in… — Ruta Sepetys
You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one… — Kiersten White
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have… — Daniel Kahneman
My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who… — James Patterson
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a… — Mark Twain
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience. — Horace Bushnell
A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All… — Etty Hillesum
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,… — Thomas Jefferson
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom… — John Stuart Mill

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