Human Behavior Quotes - Page 3

• The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

  Christine de Pizan

  Inspirational, Sex, Women

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Science, Expression, Understanding

  Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, p.195, Indiana University Press

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• but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

  George Eliot

  Men, Order, Littles

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.228, Booklassic

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• Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

  Hermann Hesse

  Important, Gestures, Morality

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

  J. J. Abrams

  Animal, Lines, Behavior

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

  Jane Goodall

  Long, Understanding, Forests

  "Jane Goodall: Primatologist and Animal Activist". Book by Connie Jankowski, 2009.

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• More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

  Hyman Rickover

  Ambition, Limits, Common

  Hyman Rickover's address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.

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• There's no solutions to prevent corruption because it's the same thing as putting soldiers in an occupation in a foreign territory - there's too much that's gonna go wrong. There's too much human behavior that's going to get in the way. So you're gonna have to start thinking about it in a different direction, and the different direction is: what is wrong with society?

  Oren Moverman

  Thinking, Soldier, Different

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

  Laurence D. Fink

  Loss, Keys, Elements

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• Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Records, Trouble

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Offers, Reciprocal

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

  Juliet Marillier

  Novelists, Behavior, Interaction

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• Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Mind, Analysis

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1966). “Essential works”

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• The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.

  Kingsley Amis

  Fall, Loss, Thinking

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• Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

  Clarence Darrow

  Class, Poverty, Causes

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• A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

  Will Wright

  Cities, Issues, Interesting

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• What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

  Douglas Coupland

  Animal, Trying, Behavior

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “Microserfs: A Novel”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

  Suzy Kassem

  Teaching, Animal, Wealth Of Knowledge

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

  Steven Pinker

  Engineering, Challenges, Problem

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

  Dennis Prager

  Behavior, Notion, Humans

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• We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

  Jerry Springer

  Mainstream Society, Television, Behavior

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• Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

  Andrew Weil

  Talking, Years, Two

  "Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

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• There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

  Ian McDonald

  Broken, Behavior, Circumstances

  Ian McDonald (2007). “River of Gods”, Pyr Books

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• The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Fields, Events

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• All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beautiful, Motivation, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.99, Hachette UK

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