Quotes on Human Behavior

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.