Quotes of: Distinguishes Keyword

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Alison Gopnik

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Henry David Thoreau

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Barbara Sher

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

George Herbert Mead

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

Daniel Kahneman

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

Paul Bloom

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

Gad Elmaleh

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors

Arthur W. Pink

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Vittorio Alfieri

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

Morarji Desai

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.'

Scott Porter

How can we distinguish between the good and perverted use of beauty?

The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

The Prince

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

The Will to Power