Susceptible Quotes

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.