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
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
“..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
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
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
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
“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
I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
“Then, my sweet, you are still an innocent, and I am amazed. Lies are far more potent than the truth, and far… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“The commandment, 'Love thy neighbour as thyself', is the strongest defence against human aggressiveness and an excellent example of the unpsychological [expectations]… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
“By making your counterparts articulate implementation in their own words, your carefully calibrated “How” questions will convince them that the final solution… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
“In such moments all artificial bonds are useless. It is what men are in themselves that determines their conduct; and discipline and… — Filson Young 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
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“If you hid long enough, a ghost among men, you might disappear forever without anyone noticing. It's human nature to ensure that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“One day people will come back. they won't be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They… — Nadia Aguiar Copy Share Image
I have gone through ups and down, and its human nature for someone to judge and say, Heres what you need to… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
WE ARE HUMANS. WE ARE NOT PERFECT. WE ARE ALIVE. WE TRY THINGS. WE MAKE MISTAKES. WE STUMBLE. WE FALL. WE GET… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader…Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You're the best and the worst, the number 1 and the number 700.000(...), that's how you'll feel daily and for all your… — Carlos A Copy Share Image
When there's an opportunity knocking on your door, do not be afraid to answer it. By having the courage to take risks,… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“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
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
![“I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can…” quote by Rosamund Pike](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b13/rosamund-pike-7165_actors_i-don-t-think-rada-wanted-me-actually-wh_1148586.jpg)
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