Human Nature Quotes

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Better not be at all than not be noble.