Top 34 Attributing Quotes
#1. the fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviors to environmental factors.
Patrick Lencioni
#2. In the sense of attributing to the claimant a prognostic view of his present ailments, freedom has always been of the oppressed.
Ashfaq Saraf
#3. Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
Honore De Balzac
#4. It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.
Thomas Sowell
#5. I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue ...
William Faulkner
#6. The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.
Herbert M. Shelton
#7. The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot
Carlos Marighella
#8. It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
Nancy Pickard
#9. A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
Alan Sokal
#10. If Stalin was such a bad guy, why do all these people have to resort to attributing to him almost entirely quotes he didn't make, or manipulate his actual quotes just enough to make them seem evil?
Joseph Stalin
#11. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer
#12. We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.
Tatiana Maslany
#14. Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake
Mike Mentzer
#15. If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.
Jerry A. Coyne
#16. [An example of misattribution:]
If you don't know the source of a quote,
you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me.
- Mark Twain
Jakub Marian
#17. Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing ... social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.
Thomas Sowell
#18. But such a general yearning could not be explained except by attributing the cause of it to the historical training through which the individual Austrian Germans had passed.
Adolf Hitler
#19. We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection
which we have ourselves created.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.
Alison Assiter
#21. I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.
Robertson Davies
#22. A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#23. Attributing to another author, Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#24. There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#25. Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else- unless it is an enemy
Albert Einstein
#26. There's nothing so ill advised as attributing a metonymic value to inanimate objects.
Valeria Luiselli
#27. We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.
Paul Washer
#28. An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established
the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.
David Hume
#29. The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common plague of humanity. It is:
The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes.
Alfred Korzybski
#30. The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
Bill Gates
#32. I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#33. Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
Jonathan Lethem
#34. I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
