Ascription Quotes

#1. Are you turning into a cougar? Is this some sort of midlife crisis I need to be concerned about?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#2. The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

Edward Gibbon

#3. What if we started every decision by asking some simple questions: What are we giving up by making this choice? What else could we do with the same time and money?

Chip Heath

#4. This nationality business helps you make a great story and satisfies your hunger for ascription of causes. It seems to be the dump site where all explanations go until one can ferret out a more obvious one (such as, say, some evolutionary argument that "makes sense"). Indeed,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Can I liberate myself from all my concerns and enter the mystery?

Michel De Salzmann

#6. People are always going to find the ones with the weird like buzz-worthy thing about a movie and like run with it.

Kristen Stewart

#7. The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

John Searle