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

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.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

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

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.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one respect and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element but talent in relationship to will desire and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

On the contrary the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

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.

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

In 1963 and later papers I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender race ethnicity language or other such characteristics.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

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

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self to know it completely to know its minutiae its characteristics its subtleties and its very atoms.

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.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows who with all their stupidity had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

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

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life choose a sense of humor.