propensities

Meaning

of Propensity

Examples

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. William Winwood Reade

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. Edmund Burke

We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act. William Winwood Reade

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. William John Wills

No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament.”. Stephen Jay Gould

Suffer yourself to be tempted within so that you may exhaust in the struggle your downward propensities. Sri Aurobindo