Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself". — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature… I would write of characters, not of characteristics. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. — Hildegard Goss-Mayr Copy Share Image
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly,… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek… — Max von Laue Copy Share Image
It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be… — Summer Altice Copy Share Image
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a… — G. M Gilbert Copy Share Image
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
I don't have any choice any more. I am in a choiceless awareness. I don't have to be aware. I am simply… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“You want me to list characteristics of a … ?” “Potential mate, yes, that would be helpful..." Without meaning to, I looked… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals.… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
![“Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at present), I think it is best to choose such a denomination as means nothing of itself and thus can give no rise to any erroneous ideas. In…” quote by Martin Heinrich Klaproth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a19/martin-heinrich-klaproth-72236_cases_wherefore-no-name-can-be-found-for-a-new_432955.jpg)
