Quotes About Behavior

Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow,

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

It's hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.

There was a little girlWho had a little curlRight in the middle of her forehead;And when she was goodShe was very, very good,But when she was bad she was horrid.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance

I dont never hav enny trouble in regulating mi own kondukt, but tew keep other pholks straight iz what bothers me.

I hope i shall never hav so much reputashun that i shan't feel obliged to be alwus civil.

Thare iz this mutch kan be sed in favour ov good-breeding, it iz the only thing that kan make a phool endurable.

Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.

Anna had the faculty of blushing.

there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.

The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.

Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from their being excessively amenable and meek, one is apt very soon after to find things intolerable from their touchiness and irritability.

I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly;

Ružan ?in možeš da ne ponoviš i možeš da se pokaješ zbog njega, ali ružne misli ra?aju isklju?ivo ružne ?ini. Ružan ?in samo utire put ružnim ?inima, a ružne misli nezadrživo vuku tim putem.

Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man.

He did not in his heart respect his mother, and without acknowledging it to himself, he did not love her, though in accordance with the ideas of the set in which he lived, and with his own education, he could not have conceived of any behavior to his mother not in the highest degree respectful and obedient, and the more externally obedient and respectful his behavior, the less in his heart he respected and loved her.

Cualquier acto de un loco, de un borracho o de un hombre excitado se presenta, ante los ojos de quien conoce el estado de ánimo del autor del hecho, como menos libre y más sujeto a las leyes de la necesidad, y más libre y menos sometido a la necesidad a juicio de quien no lo conoce.

Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.

It is clear that he is not an exceptional evil-doer, but a most ordinary boy; every one sees it—and that he has become what he is simply because he got into circumstances that create such characters, and, therefore, to prevent such a boy from going wrong the circumstances that create these unfortunate beings must be done away with.