Quotes About Behavior

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

Men argue nature acts.

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

You can predict anything in this world but not the nature's behaviour

I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I'd be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.

717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.