Top 278 Distinguishes Quotes & Sayings

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

I think it distinguishes television from every other medium. It's what makes it kind of radical, and risky, and fun.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.