Human Nature Quotes

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He's got a can up there, ' Richard said.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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

. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

What a piece of work is man!

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

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

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

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

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.

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It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

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

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

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.

This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itselfAnd leads the will to desperate undertakingsAs oft as any passion under heavenThat does afflict our natures.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man’s rebellion against God.

The Human Self is the only friend and savior to all humanity.

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.

The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.

Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.

Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.