It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized. — Vikram Seth 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
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
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume Copy Share Image
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would… — Bill Vaughan 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
The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted… — Chris Cunningham Copy Share Image
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common:… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire 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
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. — Horace Copy Share Image
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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 curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
