Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Bertrand Russell

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

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
George V. Higgins

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals.
Pierre De Beaumarchais

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

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

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

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Jack Nicholson

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
Howard Nemerov

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

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

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
Armstrong Williams

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.
Jurgen Habermas

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 from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

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

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
Arthur Middleton

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

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
Thomas Malthus

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
Philip Schaff

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
John Updike