Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Bhikkhu Analayo Copy Share Image
I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image