Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

It’s really important to understand that God is not an impersonal force. Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

Our heavenly bodies are going to be similar to our present ones, only better. We'll look enough like we do now to recognize and identify each other. We're going to have a lot of the same characteristics that we have now.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.