Quotes About Distinction

Morality is primarily concerned with questions of right and wrong, the ability to distinguish between the two, and the justification of the distinction.

In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this, little can be achieved, either in life or in knowledge.

Gerçekte hep iki zaman aras?nday?zd?r: Gövdenin ve bilincin zaman? aras?nda. Bütün öbür kültürlerdeki ruh ve gözde aras?ndaki ayr?m iÅŸte buradan kaynaklan?r. Öncelik her zaman ruhundur ve yeri bir baÅŸka zaman?n akt??? çizgidedir.

intelligence and wisdom aren't the same.

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

It is no small evil to quench the light   of the Gospel, to lay a snare for consciences, and to remove the   distinction between the Old and New Testaments.

Whether a distinction is invidious—rooted in harmful attitudes or ideas about a group and so likely to spread contempt—depends not on whether it's conduct- or status-based but on the reasoning behind it. Invidious distinctions are rooted in unfair, socially debilitating attitudes or ideas about people's worth, proper social status, abilities, or actions. By

My only claim to distinction among writers is that I do not believe my life contains any materials for a novel. I have prowled around Limehouse and the gamiest sections of Paris, but I have never yet seen (a) a really choice murder in a locked room, (b) a mysterious mastermind or (c) a really good?looking adventuress with slant eyes.

Those are first warnings about distinguishing the Pauline Paul from the Lukan Paul by separation and discrimination

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

Fame separates you from life.

a distinction between events to motivate the claim that cause and effect might come apart.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Robert Frost liked to distinguish between grievances (complaints) and griefs (sorrows). He even suggested that grievances, which are propagandistic, should be restricted to prose, "leaving poetry free to go its way in tears.

An exception to the law is a mother distinction of all distinctions; it endorses dishonesty and unfairness too.

From celebrities to all dimensions of subjects, each one of those wishes, desires, and expects, to qualify the Nobel Prize, which carries opulence charming, and fame. However, such ones, fail to realize that, it is just a Nobel Prize, not Noble Prize.

Hatred, racism, discrimination, distinction, and vainglory germinate in the soil of ego.

Historical radicalism and today's radicalism gained and achieved only the outward glamour of style and system, not the inward changing of thought, conduct, and distinction. As a fact, the conception, whether colonialism, imperialism, and such isms still exist; however, in a new packing of radicalism; otherwise, one can realize, and easily define as that: Fool the public; rule the republic.

No one can hide and stop the stink of ego, racism, distinction, and discrimination.

Rivals do not carry identity cards.