Learned Behaviors Quotes

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.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

We sometimes have a tendency to learn the lessons of recent history and convert them into articles of faith.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

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

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

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.

Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

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

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.