Human Nature Quotes
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things.
Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me…
Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.
We always talk about our feelings, neglecting the important matters that have to be look over.
Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.
We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.
It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.
I dream of a planet where the science of the mind, brings the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran, and all other scriptures together and binds them with the golden twine of harmony.
Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.
Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.
People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.
Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.
Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.
You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world.
Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor
Look at 'em, ' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.
Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable
Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.
Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.
One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.
It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.
The people in our life is like the mountain and the river. Some people will stay as others will leave. Some will travel away and make their way back to you.
A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.
Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that's closer to human reality.
Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.
However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.
I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.