Human Nature Quotes
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!
The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.
No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
