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Quotes About Distinguish

A high-quality asset can constitute a good or bad buy, and a low-quality asset can constitute a good or bad buy. The tendency to mistake objective merit for investment opportunity, and the failure to distinguish between good assets and good buys, get most investors in trouble.
~ Howard Marks
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
~ Unknown
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
~ Samuel Johnson
Maybe Violet was stricken with colorblindness, the willful inability to distinguish between white and any other color, the only infirmity Americans wished for themselves. But
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed
~ Isaac Deutscher
Critical thinking doesn't mean we disparage everything; it means that we try to distinguish between claims with evidence and those without.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
~ Thomas Day
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.
~ John James Audubon
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
~ Max Born
Moving forward in time, it is important that we learn to distinguish between mysteries and secrets. Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.
~ Mark Frost
How can love be frightening?" "When it consumes you. When it binds you to all other considerations. When you can no longer distinguish right from wrong, love becomes a terrible burden and it can destroy you as readily as it can save you." Catherine pondered the words carefully, then sighed. "I don't think I would ever want to be that much in love.
~ Unknown
How is it that we have the Tao so obscured that we have to distinguish between true and false?
~ Unknown
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
~ Max Born
One of the essential tasks in industry analysis is to distinguish temporary or cyclical changes from structural changes. P.29
~ Michael E. Porter
Kushner's analysis was the same as nearly everyone's who spent a significant amount of time around the president. He was childlike—a hyperactive child at that. There was no clear reason for why something caught his interest, nor was there any way to predict his reaction or modulate his response to it. He had no ability to distinguish the important from the less important. There seemed to be no such thing as objective reality.
~ Michael Wolff
His advisers didn't know whether he was an isolationist or a militarist, or whether he could distinguish between the two.
~ Michael Wolff
Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
~ Unknown
The liberal is always mistaken because he does not distinguish between the consequences he attributes to his intentions and the consequences his intentions effectively include.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.
~ Paul Tillich
When navigating via sensitivity and vibration, choose people and opportunities that feel deeply comfortable and that resonate harmoniously with your home frequency. You can distinguish people, opportunities, places, and answers that make beautiful music with you... When you encounter people, ideas, and opportunities that are dissonant with your home frequency, don't get involved—or if you must, let it be peripherally.
~ Penney Peirce