Quotes About Human Tendencies

#1. Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions.

Coreen T. Sol

#2. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Idries Shah

#3. Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#4. It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

William Eckhardt

#5. Pemberley Woods with some perturbation;

Jane Austen

#6. One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

Ken Ham

#7. Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

Rebecca West

#8. Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.
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Kirk D. Sinclair

#9. Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

Maurice Saatchi

#10. There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

Pope Francis

#11. There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.

Laszlo Nemes

#12. Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

David Foster Wallace

#13. Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Vinoba Bhave

#14. The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

Fanny Kemble

#15. It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

Michel De Montaigne

#16. Since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.

Aristotle.

#17. I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

Giles Duley

#18. Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

Patrick Lencioni

#19. The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.

Dennis Prager

#20. A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Al-Ghazali

#21. I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

Matthea Harvey

#22. Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

Bill Maher

#23. It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#24. Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.

Paracelsus

#25. There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne La Follette

#26. Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Drew Carey

#27. The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

B.F. Skinner

#28. Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

Thomas Paine

#29. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

Gaston Bachelard

#31. Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

Dave Eggers

#32. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

William Arthur Ward

#33. Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Lydia M. Child

#35. Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

Aldo Leopold