Behavior Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself,…

— P.D. Ouspensky

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of…

— Maurice Saatchi

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come…

— Hannah Arendt

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

— Errol Morris

I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently…

— Theodore Zeldin

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed…

— Nikola Tesla

“Understanding men or ideas or movements, or the outlooks of individuals or groups, is not reducible to a sociological classification into types of behaviour…

— Isaiah Berlin

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

— Daniel Gilbert

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

— John Lloyd

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite…

— Aldous Huxley

You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog…

— Bill Mollison

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation…

— Friedrich Nietzsche