Attribute Quotes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mahatma Gandhi)
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. View quote
George Washington
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. View quote
Charles Darwin
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. View quote
Joseph Addison
We often attribute "understanding" and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. View quote
John Searle
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. View quote
Florence Nightingale
A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. View quote
Sarah Palin
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette. (Isaac Asimov)
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. View quote
James Russell Lowell
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people. View quote
Kiana Tom
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. View quote
Maria Bartiromo
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect.... The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms. View quote
William Thomson
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Concerning the Gods, there are who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself nor has forethought for anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry:- I move not without Thy knowledge! View quote
Epictetus
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? (Emil Cioran)
If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute. View quote
Lupe Fiasco
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity. View quote
Bertrand Russell
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. View quote
Agatha Christie