Habits Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

“A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.”

— Richard B. Spence

“Our society had become antagonistic and biased against the principled and moral members of society.”

— Mike Foster

“Nothing in the study of history is cheaper than the exercise of unearned self-righteousness that derives from nothing more virtuous than ordinary hindsight.”

— Edwin Yoder

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

— Alfie Kohn

“Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Their thinking challenged many notions that were gospel in psychology and among the general public, such as the behaviorist's view that people do things…

— Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

“History teaches us that ordinary people can grow accustomed to horrible, normally unthinkable acts—what”

— Daniel E. Lieberman

“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought with his…

— Thomas Mann

“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they…

— Marc Bloch

“But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others’. This doesn’t make…

— Steven D. Levitt

“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”

— Edmund Burke