History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
“A general principle of human behavior is that it’s easier for us to see something negative in other people than in ourselves.… — Gary Small Copy Share Image
“The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“How we interact in our world that we inhabit determines how much happiness human beings enjoy. The ego guides human beings in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Her favorite place to watch human behavior was a restaurant, for there she could sit quietly in the background while people interacted… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
“British philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s eighteenth-century conception of the Panopticon, a building design he believed would allow institutions to effectively control human behavior.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“There is a theory about human behavior called the 10-80-10 principle. I speak of it often when I talk to corporate groups… — Urban Meyer Copy Share Image
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Another object lesson of why humans should have stayed in trees, where they could not behave in such an idiotic way. Or… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
“That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
“If you have been brave enough to love, and somtimes you won and sometimes you lost; if you have cared enough to… — Rabbi Harold Kushner Copy Share Image
It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
