Trait Quotes

213 quotes by 196 authors

The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as oneâ€™s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and… — Phillip Lopate
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for… — Mark Pagel
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are… — Pal Benko
Verbosity was an established Victorian trait. — Matthew Engel
The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows… — Gardiner Spring
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study. — David Pilbeam
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. — Giovanni Ruffini
If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which… — Richard Paul Evans
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and… — Plato
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and… — Plato
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. — Phil Plait
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. — Pal Benko
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment… — Eleanor Roosevelt
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the… — Billy Bragg
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that… — Floyd Abrams
My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality. — Alice Bag
I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility. — Bob Crosby
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. — Nikola Tesla
Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus. — Louie Giglio

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