We Attribute Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose… — B.F. Skinner
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. — Josh Billings
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense… — Albert Einstein
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its… — Michel Chion
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we… — Douglas Hofstadter
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? — Ann Patchett
May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet,… — Camille Flammarion
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very… — Michael Pollan
I believe that Godâ€”if he exists at allâ€”is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up… — Michael Thomas Ford
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because… — Jean Cocteau

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