Quotes About Behavior

Morals cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. The law cannot make an employer love me, but it can keep him from refusing to hire me because of the color of my skin. We must depend on religion and education to alter the errors of the heart and mind; but meanwhile it is an immoral act to compel a man to accept injustice until another man's heart is set straight.

Each of our major Ways to Think results from turning certain resources on while turning certain others off—and thus changing some ways that our brains behave.

A woman who attends to her heart will attend to her ways.

Rather, think of etiquette as a philosophy of living and enjoying life with grace, compassion, and respect for others.

Negativity could be frighteningly contagious.

He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude?

I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. And their passing moods may reflect the passing moods of others.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.

Le mauvais gout mène au crime.

Le mauvais goût méne au crime[

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one?

La amabilidad de ciertas personas es más mortífera que la violencia de gentes más rudas.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean?

A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist.

The pressure of the environment cramps art as it cramps behaviour. One may challenge this environment, but one has to pay for it, and the price is neurotic guilt. There never was an intelligentsia without a guilt complex; it is the income tax one has to pay for wanting to make others richer.

To quote Dr. Ewer: 'Behaviour will tend to be always a jump ahead of structure and so play a decisive role in the evolutionary process.' In this light, evolution no longer appears as a tale told by an idiot, but rather as an epic recited by a stutterer-at times haltingly and painfully, then precipitating in bursts.

The history of science abounds with examples of discoveries greeted with howls of laughter because they seemed to be a marriage of incompatibles-until the marriage bore fruit and the alleged incompatibility of the partners turned out to derive from prejudice. The humorist, on the other hand, deliberately chooses discordant codes of behaviour or universes of discourse to expose their hidden incongruities in the resulting clash. Com

In fact, the animal does not merely adapt to the environment, but constantly adapts the environment to itself. It eats environment, drinks environment, fights and mates environment, burrows and builds in the environment; and even in observing environment, it modifies, dismantles, analyses, and reassembles it after its own fashion, converting 'noise' into 'information'. 'Perception', Woodworth wrote, 'is always driven by a direct, inherent motive which might be called the will to perceive.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world!