Characteristic Quotes

466 quotes by 393 authors

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. — Emma Bonino
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. — Emile M. Cioran
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see… — Hu Jintao
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress… — John Climacus
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis
Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the… — Bob Brown
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura
Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution. — Tony Attwood
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment… — Emile Durkheim
The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin — Wayne Grudem
You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them — Zig Ziglar
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism.… — G. Stanley Hall
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish… — Henry David Thoreau

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