Top 503 Distinguished Quotes & Sayings

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

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. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes the person. Adam Smith and Karl Marx both recognized the extent to which people's attitudes and behaviors take shape out of the experiences they have in their work.

I wanna thank everybody - I wanna thank everybody in this room. And it's a privilege to be here this morning with you. So many distinguished members of our services, and that's really what you are, very, very highly distinguished members.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

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.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.