Attribute Quotes

308 quotes by 268 authors

Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose… — George Will
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to… — Blaise Pascal
In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is… — Chuck Hagel
I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. — Christina Hoff Sommers
It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact… — Maurice Saatchi
There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the… — Peter Welch
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate… — Derek Bok
... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged… — James Randi
May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet,… — Camille Flammarion
People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them. — P. Chidambaram
There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must… — Simon Callow
It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason. — Rene Descartes
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive… — Rene Dubos
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but… — Johannes Peter Muller
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive. — William James
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On… — John Quincy Adams
Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it… — Mahatma Gandhi
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of… — Ambrose Bierce

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