#attribute

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#attributes #created #days #estimate #his

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#simplicity #understand #understanding

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. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#beautiful #beauty #called #confused #confusion

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #change

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#woman

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown. ↗

— Davey Havok

#because #course #grown #i #live

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#beauty

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#american #american youth #arriving #attributes #driver

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. ↗

— Jule Styne

#friends

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo. ↗

— Louise Penny

#funny #misattributed #neighborliness #ralph-waldo-emerson #snow