Tendency Quotes
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.
Jean Baudrillard
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
Leonardo da Vinci
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.
Maurice Flix Charles Allais
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
Pope Benedict XVI
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
Tom Osborne
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
J. William Fulbright
WEATHER,†The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons†whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle
Ambrose Bierce
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
We will not praise Mahomet's moral precepts as always of the superfinest sort; yet it can be said that there is always a tendency to good in them; that they are the true dictates of a heart aiming towards what is just and true
Thomas Carlyle
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart Mill
The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice
Rabindranath Tagore
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
Edwin Herbert Land
