Quotes about Behavior

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

Szale?stwo: wykonywanie tej samej czynno?ci bez ko?ca i spodziewanie si?, ?e da to odmienne rezultaty.

Intense rage will normally make you stew instead of do when you encounter unfairness, and if you act while enraged you will often fight foolishly and badly.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.