Human Nature Quotes

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.

I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

We come to feel as we behave.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne