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Tag Name "Distinguish" (301)

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This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
Elmer Davis
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
George Bernard Shaw
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Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .
Nancy Leveson
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
Baruch Spinoza
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Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
Haruki Murakami
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Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.
Erik Naggum
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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.
Karsten Harries
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A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).
G. H. Hardy
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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
Mark Twain
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I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Charlotte Bronte
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.
David F. D'Alessandro
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
Barbara Kingsolver
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The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
Nicholas G. Carr
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Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed
Steve Jobs
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At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
Carl Sagan
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Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality
Ayn Rand
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Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.
Mary Morrissey
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I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
Irving Paul Lazar
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I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.
Randall Robinson
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There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.
Confucius
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
Camille Paglia
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If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.
Robert Koch
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The Press nowadays is not a literary press classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
Marie Corelli
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