Attributes Quotes

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Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had… — Benjamin Rush
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three… — Robert A. Heinlein
When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then… — Elbert Hubbard
When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can… — Sri Chinmoy
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity… — Edward Tufte
There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population… — Ernst Mayr
To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. — John Milius
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before… — Molly Haskell
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not… — Robert Boyle
Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form. — Victor Vasarely
The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the… — Edward J. Fraughton
Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. — Dirk Bogarde
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be… — William Buckland
It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed… — Arthur Compton
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In… — James Hutton
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange… — Walter Benjamin
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they… — John Henry Newman

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