Trait Quotes

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. (Pierre Corneille)
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. View quote
Philip K. Dick
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal. View quote
Michael Shermer
I am the family face Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. View quote
Thomas Hardy
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. View quote
Floyd Abrams
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. View quote
Peter Hook
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.) View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher. View quote
Jim Butcher
The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people. View quote
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game. (V. S. Pritchett)
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place. View quote
Meir Kahane
There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason. View quote
Roald Dahl
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. View quote
Phil Plait
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained. View quote
Marianne Moore
It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness. View quote
Derren Brown
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley. View quote
Ann Landers
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. View quote
Euripides
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. (Peter McWilliams)
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper. View quote
Max Horkheimer
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. View quote
Sigmund Freud
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. View quote
Larry Wall
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. View quote
Jonah Lehrer