Human Nature Quotes

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

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.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Human nature is a work in progress.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

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

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.