Human Behavior Quotes

159 quotes by 139 authors

you canâ€™t use logic on human behavior. — Jeff Lindsay
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. — John Irving
Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me. — Jeff Lindsay
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. — J D Salinger
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love. — Marianne Williamson
If you can understand human behavior, it canâ€™t hurt you nearly as much. — Carol Plum-Ucci
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined… — Atul Gawande
Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. — Khaled Hosseini
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. — Orson Scott Card
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. — Harry Allen Overstreet
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning… — E. O. Wilson
One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there… — Frans de Waal
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People… — Gary Wolf
The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as… — Grace Zabriskie
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because… — Tess Gerritsen
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled… — Walter Kirn
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to… — Rose George
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will… — Laurence D. Fink
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. — Amy Bloom
The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make -… — Richard LaGravenese

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