The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics. — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We… — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a… — David Price Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor… — Henry Ossawa Tanner Copy Share Image
If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree… — Mike Greenberg 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
The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing,… — Louis Sullivan 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