319 Quotes About Behaviour

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

The more penetrating an opinion is, the harder it will become to change it. One is well advised to consider several possibilities from time to time, this makes life easier.

People do crazy things. Mostly because they don't realize how harmful those things can really be.

People do crazy things. Mostly because they don't truly realize how harmful those things can really be.

Have you ever noticed how we humans alter our behaviour around cameras? It is almost a natural tendency to be more cautious, almost pretentious, when we know we are being watched. After all, being scrutinised by the public eye is not easy. So I like to think of us as coconuts, protecting what is inside by creating a hard shell on the exterior.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or sports — what do we do? We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is worth. And most frequently, we have trouble letting go of it because we can’t stand the idea of its loss. What are we left with then? An ideology — rigid and unyielding.

Good knowledge leads to good behaviour.

We cannot begin to discover the mind as long as we ignore the irrational and subterranean springs of behaviour as well as thought.