Quotes About Behavior

The paradox of artificial intelligence is that any system simple enough to be understandable is not complicated enough to behave intelligently, and any system complicated enough to behave intelligently is not simple enough to understand. The path to artificial intelligence, suggested Turing, is to construct a machine with the curiosity of a child, and let intelligence evolve.

In our experience, as believers practice loving attitudes and behavior toward others inside and outside their faith community, unchurched friends and family don't have to be talked into church participation. They seek it out, drawn by the promise of love.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

George grimaced. "Jack is spoiled. Things are hard for him, but he isn't the only one who doesn't have it easy. He gets away with crazy things because he's a changeling and he's different. Jack could behave better, but he stopped trying. He decided that he's worthless and that nothing he could do would make any difference.