Characteristics Quotes · Page 43

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics…

— Gregory Bateson

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that…

— S. N. Goenka

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting…

— Gene Wolfe

Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general…

— Leon Trotsky

The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is…

— Timothy Leary

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development…

— Ernest Mandel

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can…

— Prince Philip

We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk…

— Darold Treffert

... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible.…

— Edith Hamilton

The rules of engagement around building a brand have changed significantly over the past 10 to 15 years. Where companies at one…

— Howard Schultz

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.

— Antonio Gramsci

Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking,…

— Joseph Campbell

Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.

— Thomas Aquinas

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The…

— Leon Trotsky

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

— Benjamin Disraeli

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

— F. E. Adcock

The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.

— Rob Paulsen

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic…

— Andrew Greeley

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust…

— George Orwell

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are…

— Anonymous

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

— E. M. Delafield

The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able…

— Ruth Benedict

The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,…

— Albert Hofmann

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

— Gary Zukav