Human Nature Quotes

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve...

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.

I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

Human-nature will not change.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?

Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

Human nature craves novelty.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.