Characteristics Quotes · Page 18

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

— Gary L. Francione

It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian…

— Robert Dessaix

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably…

— Peter Hessler

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which…

— Benjamin Spock

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are…

— Charles Edward Merriam

Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved…

— Christopher Ryan

Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

— William Godwin

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an…

— Stanley Ho

The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount…

— Ludwig von Mises

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any…

— David Dark

Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a…

— Bertolt Brecht

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown…

— Dr. John

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

— Robert J. Shiller

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally,…

— John Von Neumann

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

— Samuel Smiles