Distinguishes Quotes
162 quotes by 146 authors
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the…
— Vanna Bonta
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I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type…
— Brandon Boyd
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic…
— Noam Chomsky
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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
— C.S. Lewis
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The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
— Douglas MacArthur
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,…
— William Penn
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly…
— Joseph Epstein
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What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
— Bill Russell
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He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions…
— Ludwig von Mises
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity…
— Albert Einstein
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If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression…
— George Polya
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Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.
— H. W. Janson
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Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast.
— Honore Daumier
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What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
— Odilon Redon
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Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.
— Geert Hofstede
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That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.
— Ernest Holmes
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The more man distinguishes himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as the subject, as an "I" to whom…
— Emil Brunner
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