Famous quotes containing the word prone:
“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune’s greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.”
—Baruch (Benedict)
“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)