Quotes About Distinction

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Influential thinkers in the West have done an admirable job of cleaving apart excellence in technique from distinction in morality. We appreciate that a person can be highly skilled without being moral in the least; that a person can be ethical without having the requisite competence; and that many of us stand out neither in terms of excellence nor social responsibility.

Foundationalism sounds too good to be true, and it is. For one thing, the distinction between "basic" and "nonbasic" beliefs appears simplistic and naïve

The human understanding, once it has adopted opinions, either because they were already accepted or believed, or because it likes them, draws everything else to support and agree with them. And though it may meet a greater number and weight of contrary instances, it will, with great and harmful prejudice, ignore or condemn or exclude them by introducing some distinction, in order that those earlier assumptions may remain intact and unharmed

they were triplets and as mutually indistinguishable as peas in a pod or days in a prison.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Cuando te des cuenta de la diferencia entre el contenedor y el contenido, tendrás conocimiento.

Es el distinguir lo irrelevante de lo relevante lo que identifica a la empresa Sufi. #ViaSufi

Jan-Fishan: Es posible que sigas un arroyo. Comprende que lleva al Océano. No confundas al arroyo con el Océano.

Hawks and eagles don't fly together. They are of totally different kind.

Thinking you're not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.

We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Ordinary matter's interaction with electromagnetic radiation is responsible for this collapse. An important distinction between ordinary matter and dark matter is that ordinary matter can radiate.

An inferior sense of smell, Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west. Gwen blinked slightly at that. I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.

Was it even a Cutlass? He could tell trucks from cars and sedans from compacts, but beyond that he was guessing.

Que isso foi o que sempre me invocou, o senhor sabe: eu careço de que o bom seja bom e o rúim ruím, que dum lado esteja o preto e do outro o branco, que o feio fique bem apartado do bonito e a alegria longe da tristeza! Quero os todos pastos demarcados... Como é que posso com este mundo?

By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in space and time that was the difference between Maria and the other.

In the hypnotic liquidity of the atmosphere all motion slows into choreography, all people on the street move as if suspended in a precarious emulsion, and there seems only a technical distinction between the quick and the dead

I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what merely might have happened, but I remain unconvinced that the distinction, for my purposes, matters.

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

Doing something prestigious does not equal being awesome.