Human Nature Quotes
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.
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I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.
