Top 154 Ascribe Quotes & Sayings

People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

I ascribe my change wholly to God.

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 about.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence...

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet when you say that, you also have to say that they triumphed, that they prevailed.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.

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 our own.

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.

One of the things I do really appreciate is that my audiences tend to be a wide range of ages and backgrounds, and I ascribe that to putting in the hours.

Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.

I'm hesitant to ascribe too much to luck because I think women have a bad habit of doing that. At the same time, there's no question that I entered the market at the right moment.

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.