Quotes About Tendency

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

There was in his nature a tendency to display a taste for fairness and justice—not the "fairness and justice" that politicians are forever carrying on about, but fairness and justice in the true, original sense of the words. As a consequence, the people of Mishima regarded him as a troublemaker and kept their distance.

Federico Pinedo: "Representamos la tendencia más en concordancia con la civilización cosmopolita y, más que todo, con la civilización europea. Somos el factor más indicado para impedir el predominio de los elementos indígenas que hoy vuelven a pesar en la política argentina desenterrados por la práctica inconsciente del sufragio universal".

This tendency to continue exuberant play into adulthood is one of the factors that leads most scientists to consider dogs and humans as "paedomorphic

the fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviors to environmental factors.

The first published discussion of it of any length was by Breuer (in semi-physiological terms) in his theoretical part of the Studies on Hysteria (Breuer and Freud, 1895). He there defines it as 'the tendency to keep intracerebral excitation constant.

Human behavior is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

By giving the name of progress to its own tendency to a fatal precision, the world is seeking to add to the benefits of life the advantages of death.