Propensities Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
— Edmund Burke
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And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
— John Stuart Mill
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The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes…
— Carl Sagan
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The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized…
— John Maynard Keynes
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the…
— Richard Bangs
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Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes,…
— Herbert Spencer
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible…
— William Winwood Reade
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The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
— Raquel Cepeda
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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
— William John Wills
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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed…
— Abraham J. Williams
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Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities…
— Ellen G. White
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If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling,…
— Connie Nielsen
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We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of…
— William Winwood Reade
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