Distinguished Quotes

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

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

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.

A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.