Learned Behavior Quotes

• Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

  Alex Haley

  Unique Characteristics, Racism, Racist

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• Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

  Margaret Mead

  Humanity, Together, Woven

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Love is a learned behavior. If you don't learn how to love yourself someone will teach you how to hate yourself.

  Tony Gaskins

  Hate, Love You, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Jan 07, 2013

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• Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

  Margaret Mead

  Behavior, Given, Replaced

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  Plato

  Plato, Desire, Three

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• No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hate, Learning, Hatred

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• Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

  J.A. Konrath

  Fire, People, Trying

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• There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

  John B. Watson

  Men, Psychology, Training

  John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.79, Routledge

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• Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

  Debbie Ford

  Struggle, Past, Behavior

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• We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people are behaving the way they are. Behavior is a result so we have to understand that before there is a result something is going on in here in the brain.

  John Assaraf

  People, Brain, Firsts

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

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  Ram Dass

  Ego, Soul, Cracks

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• You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

  Katie Couric

  Kindness, Assuming, Behavior

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• No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Children, Fear, Behavior

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• Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

  Jacque Fresco

  Culture, Behavior, Customs

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• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Money, Business

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• Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.

  Jane Roberts

  Fashion, Teaching, Past

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.359, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella

  Stephenie Meyer

  Islands, Generosity, Giving

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