Distinction Quotes

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

The highest distinction is service to others.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.