Human Nature Quotes

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

False hope is worse than despair.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I think markets will never be efficient because of human nature.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.