Nature of man Quotes · Page 150

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

— Pat Conroy

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

— Gautama Buddha

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

— Abraham Maslow

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

— Dean Koontz

“Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means”

— Dew Platt

“sympathy, loyalty, benevolence, mercy, humanity, are observed in human beings.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

— H. L. Mencken

We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human…

— Rashida Tlaib

“For it was the rejection of the possibility of human solidarity with strangers—the critical as well as moral presupposition of civil society—that…

— Helmut Walser Smith

When I won the Cesar, I was, first of all, an actor. I have to say, it's humanity first. That's the future.…

— Omar Sy

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned…

— Cyril Connolly

In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension…

— Mahbub ul Haq

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

— Leonard Nimoy

A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you…

— Jack Nicholson

In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can…

— Forest Whitaker

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately…

— Samuel Johnson

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place…

— Abraham Maslow

People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from…

— Wole Soyinka

“spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is…

— Mark Twain

For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual's life…

— Robert Glover

Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson…

— Emma Goldman

“Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply…

— katherine applegate

Humans are animals too, but some do not like to work from expectations.

— Mak_786

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.

— Rudolf Steiner

Humans are the only creature in this world, who cut the trees, make paper from them and then write, SAVE TREES on…

— Anonymous

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God.

— Emma Curtis Hopkins

“Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.

— Swami Vivekananda

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

— Keith Teare

Studying is also important, but we must become humans first.

— Lee Jin-wook

Compassion is likely the most under-appreciated of all human characteristics.

— T Jay Taylor

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

— Kenneth Grahame

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

— Ron Perlman

“I am a human being, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.”

— Terence

It's the nature of man to give and receive - to be man and woman, all in one.

— Grace Jones

“Without visionaries, humanity would have been still competing with other animals and living in cages...”

— Assegid Habtewold

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

— Paul Davies