“A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature… — James Denney Copy Share Image
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Hobbes took the madness of his age, considered it “normal,” and projected it back into prehistoric epochs of which he knew next… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.… — Huineng Copy Share Image
People are hypocritical. That's just human nature. I embrace my hypocrisy. Once you come to grips with who you are and what's… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves to us… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential,… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“..few spectacles are more instructive than a child bullying another. This behavior is not taught and cannot be suppressed. Pick a period… — Petronius Jablonski Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why,… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can… — Levitt & Dubner Copy Share Image
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“And to hear David talk about it, it's it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
