Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Because we're brought into the world or educated in a certain way, we're trained to accept the world in a certain way.

Man is a child of his environment.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Indoctrinate the Children. And when they grow to be Men and Women, their Principles will be Correct!

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

Kids are a product of their environment.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

The spirit of the age, as it is revealed to each of us, is too often only the spirit of the group in which the accidents of birth or education or occupation or fellowship have given us a place.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains--chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment--in a word, Circumstance--and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

We're all products of our own environment.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

Everything depends on upbringing.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.