apt Quotes

“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”

“The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.”

“People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.”

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”

“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”

“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”

“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”

“Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'”

“In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.”

“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”