Top 1200 Human Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

President Trump has often crossed the line of what constitutes decent behavior.

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.

But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.

The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.

While you are searching for a job, it is a good idea to be on your best behavior.

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they're handsome or if they're fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn't be that way but it's almost like human nature.

The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.