Characteristic Quotes

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

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 obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

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.

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.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.