Characteristic Quotes

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

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

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

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.