The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Some people lie so much they dont know what the truth is anymore. For them, telling lies is just like eating Pringles! — Raley Burt Copy Share Image
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature. — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Nature goes on without you, human nature goes on within you ... cause every human being is lost one way or another. — Higher Grounds Copy Share Image
“The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It's the technology, see? We can't get away from it. Anywhere you find people, you find it. Clever little contraptions. Cunning strategies.… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it's really radical and subversive and… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Moreover, nothing entitles us to assume that man has a nature or essence in the same sense as other things. In other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The advances of science and technology will bring us to the greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham: how… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Randy says, “You asked me earlier what is the highest and best purpose to which we could dedicate our lives. And the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
