Human Nature Quotes

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man’s rebellion against God.

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.

Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.

Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

What a piece of work is man!

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

He's got a can up there, ' Richard said.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

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The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any earlier.

We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our internal world and start working untiringly on eradicating them.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.

There's a vast space between being simply human to being truly humane.

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.

As hard as we strive, man remains a perfect imperfect being.

We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.

One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.

In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.

Love and Divinity are both gifts from Nature, fraught with the highest bliss.

No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.

The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.