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Quotations about behavior

Carl JungIf there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

 - Carl Jung

Tags:   behavior  children  personality  

Sigmund FreudThe Ego's relation to the Id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding the powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the Ego and the Id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

 - Sigmund Freud

Tags:   behavior  decisions  ego  psychology  

Samuel JohnsonA man has no more right to say an un-civil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

 - Samuel Johnson

Tags:   behavior  civility  courtesy  rudeness  

Winston ChurchillThe human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

 - Winston Churchill

Tags:   behavior  humanity  mathematics  

ConfuciusLet our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

 - Confucius

Tags:   behavior  reasoning  senses  

Fanny BriceLet the world know you as you are, not as you think should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose. and then where are you?

 - Fanny Brice

Tags:   behavior  posing  

Immanuel KantI am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

Ich soll niemals anders verfahren, als so, dass ich auch wollen könne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden.

 - Immanuel Kant

Tags:   behavior  ethics  law