Human Nature Quotes

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

Introspection is always retrospection

Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

Know not to revere human things too much.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.