“People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.” — Marisha Pessl, Night Film
Tag: behaviour
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“However modestly we talk about ourselves, we think we’ve got it all right, and are justified in our behaviour.” — Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
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“In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.” — Randy Wayne White, Last Flight Out
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“The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.” — Anatol Rapoport, “An Essay on Mind,” The Institute 1962
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“We sometimes feel for another, a passion of which he himself seems to be altogether incapable; because, when we put ourselves in his case, that passion arises in our breast from the imagination, though it does not in his from the reality. We blush for the impudence and rudeness of another, though he himself appears to have no sense of the impropriety of his own behaviour; because we cannot help feeling with what confusion we ourselves should be covered, had we behaved in so absurd a manner.” — Adam Smith, “Of Sympathy,” The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviours, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.” — Margaret Mead, Male and Female
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“The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies.” — Adam Smith, “Of Sympathy,” The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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“Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults?” — Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
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“Stupidity is a form of behavior. It is not something we have; it is something we do.” — Neil Postman, The Educationist as Painkiller
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“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
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