Top 100 Distinguishes Quotes
#1. The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God, is to lose a sense of the very thing that distinguishes God as God.
A.J. Conyers
#2. I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.
Maria Shriver
#3. My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
Armstrong Williams
#4. I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.
Lisa Kleypas
#5. What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.
Ali Sina
#6. Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast.
Honore Daumier
#7. This is what distinguishes the philosopher from the Christian. The Christian, in spite of logic, has only one incarnation of the Logos; the philosopher has never finished with incarnations.
Karl Marx
#8. What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
Albert Einstein
#9. In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.
Rutger Hauer
#10. Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#11. Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
Studs Terkel
#12. In a secular democracy, a person is supposed to be punished only when he breaks the law; never because he is evil. That is, after all, what distinguishes a democracy from a theocracy.
Thomas Szasz
#13. It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#14. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
M. Scott Peck
#15. Give your life's best a whole new polished definition with a unique style that distinguishes you.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#16. Clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
Edith Hamilton
#17. Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.
John N. Gray
#18. A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.
Jose Rizal
#19. Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.
Noam Chomsky
#21. But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
Gottfried Leibniz
#22. Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
Steve Jobs
#23. Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
W. L. George
#24. What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.
Madeleine Albright
#25. One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.
Edward Hirsch
#26. Because reason ... is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us ...
Rene Descartes
#27. What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.
Philip Gourevitch
#28. It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.
Adam Smith
#30. What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams ... and what we do to make them come about.
Joseph Epstein
#31. Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil ... Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
Richard M. Weaver
#32. What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.
H.L. Mencken
#33. Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.
Richard Steele
#34. Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.
Marshall Ganz
#35. Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.
James F. Cooper
#36. Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
Saint Augustine
#37. Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
Alexander McQueen
#38. Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.
Tom Cotton
#39. What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.
Erich Fromm
#40. The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
Warren G. Bennis
#42. The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.
James Cook
#43. Romans 7:21, and it distinguishes believers from unbelievers who lie serenely content in their darkness.
Jerry Bridges
#44. A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.
George Edward Woodberry
#45. While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
Lisa See
#47. The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.
Muriel Spark
#48. Every in group distinguishes itself from the outgroup by some process of "going through the mill" or enduring sufferings which are subsequently worn as the proud badge of graduation
Alan W. Watts
#49. Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#50. I've had great ambitions and boundless dreams, but so has the delivery boy* or the seamstress, because everyone has dreams. What distinguishes certain of us is our capacity for fulfilling them, or our destiny that they be fulfilled.
Anonymous
#51. All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.
Roger Staubach
#52. I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.
Bernard Sahlins
#53. I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
Romain Rolland
#54. A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
Roberta Smith
#55. I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Floyd Skloot
#56. What's novel today is the outspoken way that powerful donors admit and even champion the fact that gift-giving is a useful vehicle for preserving privilege, something that distinguishes them from earlier donors.
Linsey McGoey
#57. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
#58. The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. The difference between past and future exists only when there is heat. The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past is the fact that heat passes from things that are hotter to things that are colder. So,
Carlo Rovelli
#60. It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors
Arthur W. Pink
#61. What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals, ... is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization ... it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.
Georges Duhamel
#62. Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.
Myles Munroe
#63. The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.
Ludwig Von Mises
#64. It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.
Martin Hengel
#65. Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.
Peter Thiel
#66. The greatest hurdle one must overcome along the journey from peasantry to nobility is a commitment to reading and reflection. For nothing distinguishes the nobleman from the peasant more than knowledge and understanding.
Vicar Sayeedi - Author
Vicar Sayeedi
#67. Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#68. One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#69. Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
George Bernard Shaw
#70. Look at your uniqueness and figure out what distinguishes you from the billions of people who inhabit this planet
Sunday Adelaja
#71. Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#72. The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.
Ludwig Von Mises
#73. The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.
Sydney J. Harris
#74. We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective.
Esther Hicks
#75. Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.
Jean Berko Gleason
#76. History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#77. It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.
Guillermo Del Toro
#78. It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.
Bertrand Russell
#79. Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
#80. The fear of falling is the source of many a folly. It is a disaster. I suppose the wisest thing now is to live it over again, meditate upon it and be edified. It is thus that man distinguishes himself from the ape and rises, from discovery to discovery, towards the light.
Samuel Beckett
#81. What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors.
John L. Casti
#82. The voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
H.G.Wells
#83. What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
A.A. Milne
#84. As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.
John Burnside
#85. creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.
Danny Gregory
#86. The loss of body hair is interesting to anthropologists, because it is a feature that distinguishes us from our nearest living relatives, chimpanzees. They have body hair, we don't.
Mark Stoneking
#87. I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#88. Your selling point is that unique quality like integrity,teachability, honesty, humility, skill, sagacity, love, self-confidence, vision, compassion and kindness which distinguishes you among your contemporaries.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#89. The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to suffer with his troops.
John Ferling
#90. Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
Morarji Desai
#91. Yet the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. It
H.G.Wells
#92. There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#93. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
Richard Steele
#94. Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
Blake Mycoskie
#95. The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
Alan K. Simpson
#96. Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
Katherine Anne Porter
#97. What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism.
Mohsin Hamid
#98. To realise the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.
Isaiah Berlin
#99. The poem and the drama is not the experience except as we identify ourselves with it, and know what it feels like to have it. What distinguishes literature is that it cannot be understood unless we understand what it is like to be human.
Jacob Bronowski
#100. As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger.
Ronald Reagan
