Human Nature Quotes

It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

Human nature fascinates me.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

We are what we seem to be.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

The Human Self is the only friend and savior to all humanity.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.

There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itselfAnd leads the will to desperate undertakingsAs oft as any passion under heavenThat does afflict our natures.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.