Distinguish Quotes

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius

Men, Respect, Feelings

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Same, Another

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw

Eyes, Cannot, Dead

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire

Between, Silent, Deceive

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Voltaire

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Change, God, Courage

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White

Great, True, Before

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Victory, Defeat, Longer

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Hard, Victory, Once

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Justice, Long, Enough

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

Education, Able, Worth

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
Jerry Saltz

Yourself, Trying, Living

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
Mary Oliver

Work, Play, Between

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn

Religion, Politics, Islam

Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.
Simon Mainwaring

Education, Enough, Poverty

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
Barbara Sher

Yourself, Control, Between

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Different, English

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
Elmer Davis

Men, Truth, May

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
Ernie Harwell

Book, Baseball, Democracy

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Andrea Dworkin

Wine, Difficult, Often

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
James Buchan

Reality, Understand, Fashion

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
Daniel Goleman

Life, Father, Brain

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Great, Saying, Makes

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
Jean Henri Fabre

Start, Within, Vulgar

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.
David Sedaris

Between, Either, Laughed

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
Haruki Murakami

Writing, Real, Everything

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Quintilian

Nature, God, Character

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound

Live, Find, Between

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.
Alan Dershowitz

Two, Between, Terrorism

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
Charles Babbage

May, Few, Calmness

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