Attributing Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. — Albert Einstein
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and… — Albert Einstein
To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun… — Timothy Ball
We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves. — Paul Washer
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be… — Thomas Sankara
What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. — Alan Sokal
Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational… — Mike Mentzer
As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my… — Tatiana Maslany
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower… — Charles Darwin
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me… — Robertson Davies
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is… — George Wald
There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith… — Albert Schweitzer
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing… — Farley Mowat
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue... — William Faulkner
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which… — Aleister Crowley
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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