Human Behaviour Quotes:

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Death, God, Wisdom, Anti Religious, Intelligence And Education

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Character, Roots, Behaviour, Human Behaviour

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

- Eleanor Catton

topic: Real, Essence, Perfect, Extraction, Human Behaviour

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

- Rachel McAdams

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Mean, Behaviour, Actors, Human Behaviour

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Worst, Disappointed, Persons, Human Behaviour

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

- Marvin Harris

topic: Sex, People, Different, Human Behaviour

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

- Tony Gilroy

topic: Writing, People, Understanding, Human Behaviour

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

- Murray Rothbard

topic: Way, Behaviour, Modern, Mathematical Models, Human Behaviour

The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

- Rupert Sheldrake

topic: Memories, Animal, Behaviour, Human Behaviour

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.nobelprize.org

topic: Behaviour, Certain, Humans, Human Behaviour

What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.

- Adam Gopnik

source: Source: www.newyorker.com

topic: Behaviour, Tables, Who We Are, Human Behaviour

The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me.

- Garry Shandling

source: "Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

topic: Comic Strips, Human Behaviour

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

- Bjork

topic: Behaviour, Maps, Helping, Human Behaviour

People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies... You are not always fighting a creature in life. That's part of life, it's a pretty big part of life, but it's not all of life.

- Judd Apatow

topic: Fighting, People, Behaviour, Always Fighting, Human Behaviour

Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.

- Margaret E. Knight

topic: Jesus, Eye, Tears, Universal Love, Superhuman

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Mean, Alternatives, Behaviour, Human Behaviour

The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.

- Trudi Canavan

topic: Real, Mean, Law, Human Behaviour

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Fundamentals, Behaviour, Disaster, Human Behaviour

The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still apes. A part of our brain is still a paleo-brain and many of the reactions come from our fight or flight instinct. As long as this part of the brain can take over control the rational part of the brain (we will face these problems).

- Jean-Marie Lehn

source: Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

topic: Fighting, Long, Brain, Human Behaviour

With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

topic: Faith, Connections, Behaviour, Human Behaviour

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Issues, Climate, Too Late, Decisive Action, Human Behaviour

I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.

- J. G. Ballard

source: J. G. Ballard (2006). “Kingdom Come”, HarperCollins UK

topic: Loyalty, Hate, Shopping, Drained, Human Behaviour

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

- Joe Eszterhas

source: "'I felt I had befouled myself'". Interview with Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

topic: Behaviour, Habit, Cigarette, Human Behaviour

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

- Gary Oldman

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Behaviour, Actors, Dry, Dry Up, Human Behaviour

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life.

- Vilfredo Pareto

topic: Past, Men, Law, Social Science, Interesting Stories

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

- Gary Becker

source: Gary Stanley Becker, Ramón Febrero, Pedro Schwartz (1995). “The essence of Becker”, Hoover Inst Pr

topic: Understanding, Behaviour, Economics, Human Behaviour

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

- Amartya Sen

topic: Challenges, Inspire, Attention, Human Behaviour

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

- Jorge Garcia

source: "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

topic: Reality, People, Way, Harsh Reality, Human Behaviour

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

- Laura Dern

topic: Behaviour, Courageous, Humans, Human Behaviour

The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers ­ and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.

- John Seely Brown

topic: Successful, Technology, Years, Knowledge Workers, New Technology

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

- Simon Conway Morris

source: "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

topic: Past, Evil, Perspective, Crumbs, Human Behaviour

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

- Eddie Redmayne

topic: Moving, People, Laughing, Human Behaviour

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

- Neil Peart

topic: Fighting, Ideas, People, Despicable, Human Behaviour

There's no map to human behaviour.

- Bjork

topic: Behaviour, Maps, Humans, Human Behaviour