Human Behavior Quotes
Jess C. Scott
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime - if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more - was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
1481Saurabh Sharma
Economists and psychologists get confused when they are asked 'out of syllabus' questions by life!
4329 B.F. Skinner
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
3165 Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Rafael?”
”Yeah?”
„Do we all have monsters?”
„Yes.”
„Why does God give us so many monsters?”
„You want to know my theory?”
„Sure.”
„I think it’s other people who give us monsters. Maybe God doesn’t have anything to do with it.
1823 Amit Kalantri
They say “as brave as lion”, they say “as clever as fox”, they say “ as friendly as dog” but nobody says “as something good as man”.
4616 Hannah Arendt
Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals.
4534 Saurabh Sharma
It's not that people are mean to each other; it's just that they haven't forgotten the times when being selfless brought them loneliness & pain.
4435 Neil Abramson
Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.
3096 Husam Wafaei
If you can give the wisdom of life to a child; teach to love all regardless of what they believe in, that life is a precious gift to all, judgments of hell and heaven are manmade concept and that every one's purpose in life is to serve Humanity at large...
3327 Kiley MacLeod
Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body...
3327 Kelly Cutrone
That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.
3991 Srishtie
Jealousy is a general human behavior,
Until it's not changed.
3482 Saurabh Sharma
I often talk about unconditional love towards others. But the truth is I have always looked for favorable conditions when it comes to self-love and happiness.
Now that is what you call a true confession!
2409 Carrie Latet
Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.
4936 Tiffany Madison
The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.
1819 Thomas Gilovich
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence
2891 Thomas Gilovich
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe
4395 Thomas Gilovich
For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?
2548 Thomas Gilovich
We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed
3552 Thomas Gilovich
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
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