Quotes about Tendency

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

the fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviors to environmental factors.

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

which is a fancy way of saying that nature tends to bring things to disorder.

It is impossible, in the present temper of the scientific imagination, to find in the driftings of the cosmic atoms, whether they work on the universal or on the particular scale, anything but a kind of aimless weather, doing and undoing, achieving no proper history, and leaving no results. Nature has no one distinguishable ultimate tendency with which it is possible to feel a sympathy.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say looking back. There is the possibility of balance.Unbearable burden that the world somehow bare with a certain grace.

I believe the truths of the Bible. I just think that all too often we Christians have a tendency to try to pick and choose what we want to remember so that we can put God into a box of our choosing. He won't fit. God works outside those artificial boxes of human design.