Quotes About Distinction

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

Pride separates excellence from mediocrity

was the deep, cold distinction between fantasy and reality: No consequences.

It is not possible, says Weber, to confer the objective validity of facts on the basis of a value-judgement; and second, it is not possible to judge the value of values through the use of scientific reason. This leads him to maintain a distinction between science and ethics, the former dealing with questions of fact, the latter with questions of value.

El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.

Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm.

My intent is to help retire the word "civilian" in drawing a distinction between police and community members. Why? Because, if those served by police are civilians, that makes cops, ipso facto, a military force.)

There was class distinction in the RAF, as there was and still is in British society as a whole. It was said, for example, that a regular officer was an officer trying to be a gentleman, an auxiliary was a gentleman trying to be an officer and a VR was neither trying to be both.

we did not actually warm ourselves with vodka in the cold weather, and remained strictly alcohol-free for the entire three weeks of standing in the streets (that's what made it clear to these folks that we were different from Russians);

From nature's point of view no creatures are useful or not useful. That's just a foolish distinction applied by people.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

The likable weeds and the not likable weeds looked exactly the same but were somehow clearly divided into those that seemed innocuous and those that seemed horrible. It didn't stand to reason. What a girl likes and what she hates seems rather arbitrary to me.

Debates are for ignoble souls such as yourself who are anxious to achieve distinction.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

I am particularly impressed by the research of Tania Singer, a cognitive neuroscientist, and Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk—two scholars working together to explore the distinction between empathy and compassion.

This distinction between empathy and compassion is critical for the argument I've been making throughout this book.

Distinction bias is the tendency to view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.

If the bath water is dirty, it can be thrown out without losing the baby!

I said, "UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead." This gave me the dubious distinction of being the first person of cabinet rank in the G8 group of countries to state categorically, without any reservation, that UFOs are real.

The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.