Human Nature Quotes

He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.

Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them

Oh, people get used to so many things, " said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

what we are we potray that in our deeds.....

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible.  Why?  Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.

Distance reflects the true intensity of the relationship.. Some people come too close & Some forgets that u exist too..

You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.

Ego is the world's worst narcotic

For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis -- I don't care!""Huh, " I considered. "I guess I don't either"."Most people don't! All they care about, " he added grimly, "is being right".

Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".

History is a record of human nature in action.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

People grow, but they don't change.

Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.

Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

We've all got our own brand of crazy.

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

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.