Quotes About Distinguishing

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

The 1994 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles in Britain finds that the only obvious distinguishing feature of British homosexuals apart from sexual orientation is a tendency to live in London.

The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

The dolphin (dorado), which is a brilliantly colored tropical fish, must not be confused with the creature, also called dolphin, which is a small, toothed whale.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

This paradox of a synthesis that unites creatures by distinguishing them and distinguishes them by uniting them—a paradox that can be found throughout the whole edifice of the universe—takes its origin in the most original relation of all things: their relation to God.

The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic...I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans.

O desejo de se sentir importante é uma das principais características que distinguem os homens dos animais.

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Scripture knows no twofold religious veneration, one of a lower kind and the other of a higher kind. Roman Catholics, accordingly, admit that worship (latria) and homage (dulia) are not distinguished in Scripture as they distinguish them, and also that these words furnish no etymological support for the way they are used.

It is the distinguishing of irrelevance from relevance which marks the Sufi enterprise.

The doctrine of divine sovereignty is only a major aspect of a proper understanding and definition of God. And as such, it has a dividing and distinguishing effect.

Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love.

I recognize the lion by his paw.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

Albeit expression suffices to make us believe in enormous differences between things that are separated by infinitely little — albeit that infinitely little may by itself create an expression that is absolutely unique, an individuality — it was not only the infinitely little of its lines and the originality of its expression that made each of these faces appear irreducible to terms of any other.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

can't tell salt from cyanide by tasting it.

Incompetent people lack the skills to improve because they are unable to distinguish between incompetence and competence.