Human Nature Quotes

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

All babies are Buddha babies.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

The music was great for teaching about human nature. but I couldn't do any instruments or play anything. I like to sing. I'd rather sing than eat, but most people would rather hear me eat.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

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.

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

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

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.

Human nature craves novelty.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.