Propensity Quotes

114 quotes by 96 authors

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky
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
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
If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you… — Kenneth Kaye
Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other. — Peter FitzSimons
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
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle… — Mary Wollstonecraft
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that personâ€™s propensity to be impressed by the measurement… — Christopher Hitchens
Before my marriage, I didnâ€™t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have… — Grace Kelly
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological… — Richard Dawkins
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes… — Emile M. Cioran
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.... — Mercy Otis Warren
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… — Walter Lippmann
I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for… — Jen Lancaster
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
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man… — Benjamin Haydon

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