Human Nature Quotes
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.
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
