There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A comprehensively reductive conception is favored by the belief that the propensity for the development of organisms with a subjective view must… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is… — William H. McMaster Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life. — Miguel Copy Share Image
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify… — David Coleman Copy Share Image
