Characteristic Quotes

466 quotes by 382 authors

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle. — Jean Driscoll
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited),… — Aristotle
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility… — Isaiah Berlin
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. — John Maynard Keynes
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to… — Barbara Ehrenreich
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning. — Ned Sublette
The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize… — Daniel Quinn
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she… — Albert Howard
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with.… — John Dos Passos
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice… — Gordon Tullock
And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such… — David Dark
All art has this characteristic-it unites people. — Leo Tolstoy
Cinemaâ€™s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind. — Satyajit Ray
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological… — Albert Einstein

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