Top 807 Characteristic Quotes & Sayings

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.

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.

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!

The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty

My best characteristic is that I don't take things too seriously. And my worst characteristic is the same one. There are times when my family wants me to take things seriously and I'll be mucking about. So I'm aware it's annoying for everyone else.

Pele has all the qualities and characteristic that a football player has to have.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests.

The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.

I'm very Aries - every characteristic, good and the bad.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?