Characteristic Quotes
466 quotes by 393 authors
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
— Gaston Bachelard
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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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
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I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
— Emma Bonino
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
— Warren Buffett
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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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
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
— Kingsley Amis
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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
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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
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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
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Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
— Albert Bandura
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Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.
— Tony Attwood
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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
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The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin
— Wayne Grudem
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You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them
— Zig Ziglar
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Characteristic Quotes
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