We Attribute Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
— Josh Billings
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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
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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
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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
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
— Ann Patchett
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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
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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
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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
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I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up…
— Michael Thomas Ford
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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
Who Wrote These We Attribute Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 We Attribute Quotes as follows: