Attribute Quotes
308 quotes by 268 authors
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It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected…
— William A. Dembski
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
— Charles Darwin
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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked…
— Victor Hugo
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Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels.…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because…
— Jean Cocteau
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
— Arthur C. Clarke
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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
— Albert Einstein
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Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit…
— Winston Churchill
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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior…
— Oscar Wilde
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The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens…
— C.S. Lewis
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
— Markus Zusak
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Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery…
— Roald Dahl
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The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never…
— Henry Hazlitt
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I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we…
— Clarence Darrow
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You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for…
— Philip Roth
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This…
— William James
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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