No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. — Horace Copy Share Image
The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to… — Moby Copy Share Image
Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters,… — George Washington 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
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.... — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my… — Jerry Jeff Walker Copy Share Image
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
