quotations about behavior
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Elective Affinities
The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
NAYEF AL-RODHAN
Emotional Amoral Egoism
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
To human behavior....
And there's no map
And the compass
Wouldn't help at all
BJÖRK
"Human Behavior"
Conduct is three-fourths of our live and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Literature and Dogma
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
TAHIR SHAH
House of the Tiger King
If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI
What Happened to Lani Garver
Trying to improve a relationship by changing your mates behavior is like trying to improve a roadway by changing your car's tires. It may seem less bumpy for a while, but the potholes will only get bigger.
TARO GOLD
What Is Love?
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
3001: The Final Odyssey
Nothing is so unimpressive as behavior designed to impress.
JON ELSTER
Sour Grapes
But practically I know men and recognize them by their behavior, by the totality of their deeds, by the consequences caused in life by their presence.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.
STANLEY MILGRAM
Obedience to Authority
Behavior, what wert thou
Till this madman show'd thee?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love's Labour's Lost
As the occasion, so the behavior.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. Man is not suffering from the ravages wrought by earthquakes and volcanoes, by tornadoes and tidal waves; he is suffering from his own misdeeds, his own foolishness, his own ignorance and disregard of natural laws.
HENRY MILLER
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Trying to understand behavior solely on the strength of observations of behavior is like trying to understand television by looking at the screen and abstaining from theorizing about electromagnetic waves and electrons.
MARIO BUNGE & RUBEN ARDILA
Philosophy of Psychology
So the crime we find is just human behavior
Everybody's in the line
So the crime we find is just human behavior
Time will find
KING'S X
"Human Behavior"
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
ALI IBN-ABI-TALIB
Sentences
Looking at human behavior is like running into a cloud whose origins and direction is unknown. You can see the cloud, dynamic and three dimensional, but when you reach out to grab a handful to test you come away with nothing visible but a clenched fist.
MARJORIE R. WRIGHT
attributed, Knowledge Development in Nursing
Our values and behaviors are incongruent, and this incongruence causes us a certain degree of moral discomfort. In order to alleviate this discomfort, we have three choices: we can change our values to match our behaviors, we can change our behaviors to match our values, or we can change our perception of our behaviors so that they appear to match our values.
MELANIE JOY
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
My freaky behavior
(workin on my frea-ky behavior)
My freaky behaaaavior, whaaa
(workin on my frea-ky behavior)
My freaky behavior
Sometimes I can't he-help myself
TONE LOC
"Freaky Behavior"