Tendencies Quotes - Page 29

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Chauncey Wright

Men, Civilization, Progress

Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.51, A&C Black

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The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Georgia Harkness

Atheism, World, Judgment

Georgia Elma Harkness (1937). “The Recovery of Ideals”

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The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.

E. Haldeman-Julius

Race, Interesting, Credit

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One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals - lastly, the tendency of hydrocarbons to unite together to form the more condensed material - suffice to account for the formation of these curious compounds. Moreover, this formation will be continuous because the reactions which started it are renewed incessantly.

Marcellin Berthelot

Mean, Water, Together

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There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Robert Eastaway

Education, Math, Government

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Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

Eamonn Coghlan

Running, World, Olympics

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...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from an instrument it tends to pull them in. You have to listen a little more attentively. High frequency instruments hit you so hard, after a while the ear has a tendency to want to shut down. And that's what happens. I've been able to observe very carefully how people tend to get very tired of listening to high frequencies a lot.

Bennie Maupin

Tired, Years, People

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I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

Donald Pleasence

Thinking, People

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Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude, and humility. An essential virtue of humility is to accept others for what they are, despite differences. I contemplated again how the tendency to judge others is often a symptom of insecurity, immaturity, or selfishness, and I yearned to rise above it. Everyone is a child of God. God loves all of His children. If I wish to love God, I must learn to love those whom He loves.

Radhanath Swami

Gratitude, Children, Humility

Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

Jacques Verges

Lynching, People, Knows

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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Longchenpa

Practice, Path, Fool

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The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

Brigid Brophy

Bulls, Fighter, Butchers

"Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.

Scott Belsky

Self, Tolerance, Limits

Scott Belsky (2011). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.239, Penguin UK

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Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.

Edmund Gosse

Thinking, Errors, Parent

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

Brian Ferneyhough

Teacher, Distance, Years

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There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

Lionel Tiger

Illumination, Anxiety, Wish

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The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

Rick Mercer

Men, Thinking, Years

"This Hour Has 22 Minutes". Comedy, (1992– ).

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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

Robert M. Sapolsky

Brain, Behavior, Genes

Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.293, Macmillan

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As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

Ricky Williams

Thinking, Ties, Long

"NFL dropout Ricky Williams chilling in Sierra / He's been found studying the healing arts" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. November 21, 2004.

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Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

Thomas Chalmers

Heart, Mind, Vacancy

Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

Marian Wright Edelman

Children, America, People

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I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

Peter Hain

Taken, Long, Looks

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Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the beginning of [the 20th] century was toward growing competition. Competition was unacceptable...it was not the existence of monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it.

Gabriel Kolko

Government, Numbers, Competition

"Triumph of Conservatism". Book by Gabriel Kolko, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1963.

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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Men, Logic, Theory

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Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Philosophy, Real, Believe

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