Human Nature Quotes

[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.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

I am only human, although I regret it.

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

The human soul is an abyss

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

I believe in order to understand

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

Envy is human nature.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.