We Ascribe Quotes
15 quotes by 12 authors
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can…
— Kij Johnson
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We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the…
— Alfred Adler
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The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
— Michel de Montaigne
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To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a…
— Eric Hoffer
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Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
— Chris Martin
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I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the…
— Howard Schultz
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.
— William Shakespeare
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The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When…
— James Redfield
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Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe…
— Amin Maalouf
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking…
— David Hume
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God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see…
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Who Wrote These We Ascribe Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 15 We Ascribe Quotes as follows: