Prone Quotes

236 quotes by 206 authors

Most people are far more prone to let the bad experiences shape their views than the good ones. — Rick Joyner
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends… — Karl Jaspers
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. — Daniel Kahneman
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation — Fanny Burney
Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true. — Hal Clement
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes… — Mark Steyn
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no… — Jonathan Carroll
Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender… — Dani Rodrik
Congress is best viewed from a distanceâ€”the farther the betterâ€”because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at… — Robert M. Gates
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love,… — Parker J. Palmer
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life… — Sallust
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them. — Thomas Huxley
Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I canâ€™t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with… — Florence Welch
When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone… — Abhijeet Sawant
It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? â€¦ Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge?… — Noel Pearson
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to… — E T A Hoffmann
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field… — Bo Jackson
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection. — Richard von Weizsaecker
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. — Herman Kahn

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