Best Characteristics Quotes

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Let’s not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

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.

Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn’t explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.

Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

[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.

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

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

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

The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.

What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that’s this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight ratio. It does depend on the raw power.

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

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

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

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.