Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody’s heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
We all want things we cant have. Being a decent human being is accepting that — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
3 things that I'm extremely allergic to: Racism, Poverty and Bull-shit. — London Mond Copy Share Image
I used to think that no woman would ever be interested in me, and then, when they were, it's human nature to… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
“The course of human history has always moved in the direction of greater freedom. And there’s a reason for that—because it’s in… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years,… — Indra Nooyi 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
When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been… — Jaggi Vasudev 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
“Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
