Propensity Quotes

Propensity Quote of the day

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.

Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.

The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.