259 Quotes About Human-behavior

The survival of an animal is predicated on how swiftly it can act on its primitive biases, in other words instincts, whereas the integrity of the fabric of human society is predicated on how conscientiously you can restrain your biases.

The things man do publicly, women do secretly. The things women do secretly . Man do publicly. When it comes to moral compass . We are all the same.

Never feel bad for being yourself.

Nothing is more tedious than to talk with persons who treat your most obvious remarks as startling paradoxes and Edward suffered likewise from that passion for argument which is the bad talkers’ substitution for conversation. People who cannot talk are always proud of their dialectic. They want to modify your tritest observations and even if you suggest the day is fine, insist on arguing it out.

When it comes to behavior, there is not one, but two types of behavior, one that is instinctual - the kind of behavior that helped our ancestors survive the harshness of the jungle, then there is the behavior of a civilized being - a behavior that is driven by thought and warmth - the behavior of a caring and conscientious human.

That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

What the new science of anthrozoology reveals is that our attitudes, behaviors, and relationships with the animals in our lives- the ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we eat- are, likewise, more complicated than we thought.

Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.