Quotes About Tendency

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

A tendency toward obsession was hardwired into his brain and would likely be his undoing if he couldn't learn to outsmart it.

Academia has a tendency, when unchecked (from lack of skin in the game), to evolve into a ritualistic self-referential publishing game.

Our tendency to perceive—to impose—narrativity and causality are symptoms of the same disease—dimension reduction.

La narratividad nace de una necesidad biológica innata conforme a la cual tendemos a reducir la dimensionalidad;

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion

Lo único que digo aquí es que no debemos estar ciegos a la antifragilidad natural de los sistemas ni a su capacidad para cuidarse solos, y que debemos reprimir la tendencia a dañarlos y fragilizarlos negándoles la ocasión de hacerlo.

There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.

A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may be, such a hopeless task before her.

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So even very young she saw slavery as an ancient practice arising because rich people would rather not do hard work, and also from the tendency of people to clench hard to advantageous passages in the Bible and dismiss the rest.

characteristic of the median—that it does not weight observations on the basis of how far they lie from the midpoint

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Some behavior is more probable, other behavior more improbable.

Selective memory is the handmaiden of fashion.

Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.