Herodotus Quotes

Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.

Man is a child of his environment.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.

I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

How I was raised is what I am today.

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.