Quotes About Tendency

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.

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

That is, we are hardwired to detect relationships where often none exist, a tendency science writer Michael Shermer has labeled "patternicity.

Of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to gluttony. Once engaged, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.

We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Tenía una fuerte tendencia a disertar y a discursear y a la digresión

Jake knew that his mother had a tendency to mistake rules, her rules, for principles. She did not bend because she did not have enough confidence to know when or how far. She did not listen well because one ear was always otherwise engaged - either listening to what she herself had just said or what she would say next.

He could not be a breaker, it was against his bent.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.