Quotes with attribute

  • My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
  • You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
  • As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
  • Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
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  • William Shakespeare But mercy is above the sceptred sway; it is enthroned in the hearts of kings; it is an attribute to God himself.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • James Russell Lowell A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • James Russell Lowell A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sagan Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Josh Billings As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Aristotle But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Dorothy Parker Gratitude - the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • John Locke I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George F. Will Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • George Washington My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Russell H. Conwell No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.
    Russell H. Conwell
    American Baptist minister, lawyer, and writer
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Arthur Erickson The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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