Human Nature Quotes
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.