Attributes Quotes
530 quotes by 447 authors
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Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
— Winston Churchill
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.…
— Charles Darwin
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When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
— Josh Billings
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Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
— James Russell Lowell
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character. As spirit children of our Heavenly Father, we do…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport…
— Julius Erving
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
— Ernest Hemingway
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God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually…
— Rumi
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Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.
— Rumi
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There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.
— Willis R. Whitney
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
— Eric Hoffer
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Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
— Ernest Holmes
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