Characteristics Quotes - Page 2

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

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

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

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

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

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

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

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

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

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

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

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

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

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

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

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

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.

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

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.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.