Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To make mistakes is known to be human, so allow me life and let me live. — Joseph Maelane Copy Share Image
“Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason.” — Christine Kinealy 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
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Vulnerability may seem like a weakness, but in truth, it is a strength for being able to show you can be vulnerable,… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Using Maslow’s insights, you can define higher-level values appropriate to your message, brand, and audience. Then, using what we learn from Joseph… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“Mr Wooster, I am not ashamed to say that the tears came into my eyes as I listened to them. It amazes… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“We are able to overcome grievances towards others when we understand that everyone is acting from their own fallible experiences in life.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Promoting promiscuity in this evolved and civilized society is actually like signing the Declaration, that says: “I hereby renounce my membership of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. — Leon Surmelian Copy Share Image
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Human nature and behavior cause action, but through action an attempt is made to change attitude.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.” — David L Lloyd Copy Share Image
“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'? — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“...it is part of [human nature] to comply with one another for the greater good of our social organization...” — John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication Copy Share Image
“It was an organization of obstacles and precautions—based at bottom on a profound suspicion of human nature.”11 Furthermore,” — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image