Tendencies Quotes

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Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is… — M. Scott Peck
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do… — Daniel Gilbert
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually… — Flannery O'Connor
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there… — Paulo Coelho
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and… — Hunter S. Thompson
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the… — Lynne Truss
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And… — Jane Austen
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the… — Frederic Bastiat
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that… — Peter Kropotkin
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness,"… — Theodore Roosevelt
When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates… — James Redfield
Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our… — James Redfield
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil.… — Agatha Christie
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that… — Diana Gabaldon
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are… — Barry Lopez
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice… — Isabel Allende

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