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The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
— Amos Bronson Alcott
distinguished scholars and
— Sally Beauman
An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
— Maria Edgeworth
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
— Andrea Dworkin
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
— Ambrose Bierce
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
— Herbert Spencer
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
— Jonathan Swift
Paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.
— Alexandre Dumas
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
— Karl Kraus
To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.
— Onyi Anyado
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
— William Merritt Chase
...that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other.
— Joseph Epstein
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.
— Richard Steele
Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.
— Bernie Sanders
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
They were of much the same stock, and their creeds could only be distinguished by their varying degrees of bigotry and intolerance.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
— Epictetus
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
— Samuel Alexander
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
— Jeremy Collier
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
— George Washington
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
— Dinesh D'Souza
A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
— Daniel Kahneman
Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours the less distinguished.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you're not a king you can wear a hat to be distinguished. And if you're not a king and you don't wear a hat you end up being a nobody.
— Juan Pablo Villalobos
Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
— Bradford Dillman
There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
— Gerry Spence
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
— Arthur Balfour
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
— W. E. B. Griffin
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
— Robert M. Hutchins
History is distinguishedfrom nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will. — Albert Camus
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
— Joseph Addison
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
— Hannah Arendt
What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,
— Ford Madox Ford
It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.
— Sophocles
One should try to be one's own best friend and to give one's self, in this manner, distinguished company.
— Henry James
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.
— John Stuart Mill
But they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their
— Adam Smith
And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.
— St Patrick
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
— John Calvin
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others.
— Sunday Adelaja
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
Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.
— Robertson Davies
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You are distinguished in life by your ability to recognize and follow God's voice on daily basis.
— Sunday Adelaja
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Accompanying her were distinguished Jedi Masters Dooku and Sifo-Dyas, and a tall, powerfully built Jedi Knight named Qui-Gon Jinn,
— James Luceno
He was distinguished by a red eye that had hemorrhaged while proofreading unsolicited manuscripts.
— Robert Klose
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.
— Marcel Proust
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
— Edward Dowden
Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.
— Debasish Mridha
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
— Josh McDowell
In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.
— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
— John Calvin
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
— James Boswell
One of the anarch's emoluments is that he is distinguished for things that he has done on the side or that go against his grain.
— Ernst Junger
But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
— Leslie Marmon Silko
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
— Thomas Hobbes
Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.
— Donald Verrilli Jr.
A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.
— Sunday Adelaja
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
— Samuel Johnson
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
— Henry David Thoreau
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
— Hannah Arendt