Quotes having the keyword Distinctions
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
by Whitfield Diffie (Scientist, American , born in 1944) keywords: between, distinction, distinctions, make, much, musings, professional, recreational, sharp, some, sort, their, very , work
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
by Samuel Foote (Dramatist, English , born in 1720) keywords: death, dice, distinctions , level
The highest of distinctions is service to others.
by King George VI (Royalty, British , born in 1895) keywords: distinctions, highest, others , service
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
by Abbie Hoffman (Activist, American , born in 1936) keywords: abuse, arbitrary, clinical, distinctions, illegal, legal, medical, often, political, understand , use
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
by Arthur Keith (Scientist, Scottish , born in 1866) keywords: between, christians, conspicuous, desire, discriminate, distinctions, escape, good, implanted, men, nature, observation, our, races, senses, too , whether
Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
by John McCarthy (Politician, American , born in 1857) keywords: bad, distinctions, hard, make , philosophy
This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
by Bill McCartney (Celebrity, American , born in 1940) keywords: affirm, christ, christians, come, distinctions, gathering, jesus, jewish, oneness, our, publicly, roots, time, type , unprecedented
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
by John Polkinghorne (Physicist, British , born in 1930) keywords: also, assimilate, concepts, cosmology, creation, different, distinctions, doctrine, give, maintain, need, resist, science, scientific, scientists, should, sometimes, temptation, theology, think, try , which
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
by Thomas Reid (Philosopher, Scottish , born in 1710) keywords: case, corrected, distinction, distinctions, doubt, entitled, error, even, examine, found, imputed, languages, may, ought, philosopher, philosophy, structure, such, those, vulgar , which
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
by Thomas Reid (Philosopher, Scottish , born in 1710) keywords: common, distinctions, fastidious, first, found, foundation, granted, languages, mankind, nature, out, proof, sense, setting, structure, surely, takes, too, treating, way , without
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
by Thomas Szasz (Psychologist, American , born in 1920) topics: Society keywords: among, because, collective, creates, democratic, distinctions, guilt, individual, meaningful, meaningless, men, mind, moral, now, odious, prefer, punishment, responsibility, unfashionable , which