This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“People are like wildflowers—drain their souls, and nothing blooms. Nurture them, and they become a garden where the world gathers its sweetness.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person… — Kelleen Goerlitz Copy Share Image
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully. "You must feel really good about… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there.… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
The path I chose was the path that most people ignored because of fear, anxiety and their strongly held belief in lack… — Simon Quperlier Copy Share Image
“I was learning an important and fascinating lesson about business and human nature: Failure terrifies people. They’ll do whatever they have to… — Scott Fearon Copy Share Image
“If you listen repeatedly to religious speech, after enough repetitions you will actually begin to notice God and His works where there… — Richard Brodie Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eros is the drive for union and reproduction in the biological realm. Even in the birds and animals, we see the "desire… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Oamenii comunica intre ei prin semne conventionale si astfel si-au facut iluzia desarta ca se si inteleg. In realitate fiecare atribuie celorlalti… — Liviu Rebreanu Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be nice if human nature could learn stuff before we get to the brink? It seems we have to experience… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
“...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.” — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
