The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature. — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself. — Herb Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Love is too mighty for humans to handle. It may make you feel invincible, but it will show you your own mortality.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“-Would you wish us to invest it for you? -No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals.… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,… — Ed Mayo Copy Share Image
“The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events; and what ideas will naturally be entertained of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all… — Arnold Joseph Toynbee Copy Share Image
“After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image