Top 100 Quotes About Human Behavior
#1. The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.
William Hardy McNeill
#2. People who understand human behavior and personality tend to find flaws in every next person they meet, analyze their actions and develop bit sociopath nature.
Himmilicious
#3. Much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#4. The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
Margaret Mead
#5. To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.
E. O. Wilson
#6. There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.
Jordan Belfort
#7. Robert Cialdini, author of one of my favorite books, Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion, writes: "A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they
Lior Suchard
#8. I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.
John Banville
#9. While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen Hawking
#10. If I show consideration for others," Lillian Lynburn said grumpily, "will you tell me again about how you shot my husband?"
Jon rolled his eyes. "Yes, Leigh, if you manage to approximate human behavior for half an hour, I will tell you your favorite story again.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#11. Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?
Ian Fleming
#12. It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.
Craig Zobel
#13. Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.
Deepak Chopra
#14. I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
Dane Cook
#15. I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.
Scoot McNairy
#16. But writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
John Irving
#17. Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
Jane Goodall
#18. Okay ... ' I hurried on. 'But why me?'
'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?'
'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.'
'Oh, it's much the same thing.
Jonathan Stroud
#19. All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
John Boorman
#20. I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.
Laura Benanti
#21. Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss; yet apparently it wasn't obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of one of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior:
Common sense is not common action.
Shawn Achor
#22. Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.
Stephen Jay Gould
#23. For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
Gary Wolf
#24. Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.
Milton H. Erickson
#25. If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#26. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.
Robert Ludlum
#27. That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Philip Zimbardo
#28. I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
Ellie Goulding
#29. Changing organizations comes down to changing human behavior.
Gregory P. Shea
#30. We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are more racist. Or '16 and Pregnant.' Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious?
Chelsea Handler
#31. The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
#32. Human behavior isn't necessarily logical, nor does it necessarily conform to our expectations. What each of us thinks of as logical is a reflection of our own beliefs, and of our own moral compass.
Philip Houston
#33. The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.
Ludwig Von Mises
#34. Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.
Tess Gerritsen
#35. My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).
Richard Bentall
#36. A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.
Will Wright
#37. The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
Marianne Williamson
#38. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
#39. two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Simon Sinek
#40. Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
#41. How very American, he thought, to look at a disease as homosexual or heterosexual, as if viruses had the intelligence to choose between different inclinations of human behavior.
Randy Shilts
#42. I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.
Wendell Pierce
#43. All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
Robert A. Heinlein
#44. In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.
Pauley Perrette
#45. There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
David Letterman
#46. As for me, I preferred to let people believe what they wanted to believe. It made life far more interesting. But my fascination with human behavior was one I kept to myself,
Laurelin Paige
#47. Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
Hermann Hesse
#48. The typical approach to understanding human behavior has always been to look for the average behavior or outcome.
Shawn Achor
#49. In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
Jane D. Hull
#50. Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
J.J. Abrams
#51. The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
Anna D. Shapiro
#53. Hospitality is a word used to describe a human behavior that has the potential to bring about real-understanding among people who do not share a common faith or culture.
Martin E. Marty
#54. I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it
Tommy Wiseau
#55. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes.
Beth Moore
#56. When they identify relativism, the belief that there is no absolute truth to guide human behavior, as one of the evils of our times; but you won't find absolute truth if you look for it where it cannot be found: in doctrines, ideologies, sets of rules, or stories.
Eckhart Tolle
#57. I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
William Friedkin
#58. Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
Sidney Poitier
#59. As we look into a clear night sky, we see just a fraction of what the universe contains. This applies to human behavior too. As we look at a person, we only see a fraction of what that person actually is.
Rajeev Kurapati
#61. Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.
James Nachtwey
#62. I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#63. The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
#64. In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
Robert De Niro
#65. I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.
Thomas Schlamme
#66. The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.
Brian Tracy
#67. I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences.
Brene Brown
#68. I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.
Phil Klay
#69. The urge for retribution, therefore, seems to depend upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. Despite
Sam Harris
#70. What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity.
Arthur C. Clarke
#71. A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
Albert Bandura
#72. None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior ...
James Thayer
#73. Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
Naoto Fukasawa
#74. Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.
Nir Eyal
#75. The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
Joan D. Vinge
#76. The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.
Lesslie Newbigin
#77. Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.
Louis Leakey
#78. I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
Julia Stiles
#79. Nothing can be perfect... even the analysis of the human behavior. - If you think they can be perfect and 100% Accurate...
Deyth Banger
#80. To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
Herbert A. Simon
#81. 'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.
Luanne Rice
#82. Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Mary McCarthy
#83. Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
Anita Brookner
#84. Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.
Anne Heche
#85. Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.
Stephen A. Diamond
#86. It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Josef Albers
#87. I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.
David E. Kelley
#88. Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
Amy Smart
#89. Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.
Anthony Biglan
#90. In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.
Margaret Mead
#92. War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
Jane Goodall
#93. Literature recounts history, explores knowledge, narrates universal themes of human existence, actives human conscience, enhances understanding of human motives, and explicates the nuances of human behavior.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#94. complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.
Jon Ronson
#95. There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
Alfred Kinsey
#96. Those who exclaim that "animals are not people" tend to forget that, while true, it is equally true that people are animals. To minimize the complexity of animal behavior without doing the same for human behavior erects an artificial barrier.
Frans De Waal
#97. I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
Joseph Fiennes
#98. Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.
Matt Ridley
#99. My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.
Amy Bloom
#100. It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.
Raif Badawi
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