It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.” — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps. — F. E. Adcock Copy Share Image
If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories. — John Hay Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of a value-based leader are: other-centredness, calling, competence, and finally character. How do i define character? Two aspects: Integrity (… — Dr John Ng Copy Share Image
The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also… — Eloise Jarvis McGraw Copy Share Image
A commodity doesn't have the same characteristics as a security, characteristics that allow for analysis. Other than a recent sale or appreciation… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly… — Henry Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop… — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different, I think there's two ways… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization, — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how… — David Zayas Copy Share Image
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
