Human nature Quotes · Page 39

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

— Charles Lamb

Im human. I have weaknesses, I make mistakes, and I experience sadness; but I learn from all these things and they make…

— Anonymous

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.”

— Jennifer Mugrage

“Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

— Ivan Pavlov

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't…

— Hattie Morahan

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the…

— Mark Twain

If a girl understand your bull-shit, sticks through your childish acts, care for you even when you've done jack-shit for her! It's…

— London Mond

“Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make…

— Greg Iles

“He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically,…

— Brynn Chapman

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to…

— Ivan Turgenev

“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said,…

— G.K. Chesterton

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

— Satish Kumar

“I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach…

— Steven Pinker

That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is…

— Thomas Woods

“I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature.”…

— Frank Herbert

Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that…

— Lord Chesterfield

There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They…

— John Denver

“Libertarians (like anarchists and Marxists) generally believe that human nature is good, though damaged by certain social institutions. Conservatives, on the contrary,…

— Russell Kirk

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one…

— Saint Basil

“The trouble with purging the school curriculum of religious knowledge is that ultimate questions cannot be answered without reference to religious beliefs…

— Russell Kirk

“Teach him to call it ‘real-life and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. (...) Never having been human (...)…

— Clive Staples Lewis

The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.…

— Huineng

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

— Gordon Willis

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by…

— Edmund Burke

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

— Youssef Ziedan

“Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.”

— Thomas Hardy

“I knew something else, too: It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also…

— Deb Caletti

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who…

— Eric Hoffer

Guilt is one of those essential emotions. Without it, we could not call ourselves human.

— Anonymous

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

— Marcus Aurelius

Kolaigaran' is not a typical hero-villain subject. We explored the other side of human nature, which is grey.

— Vijay Antony

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

— Alfred North Whitehead

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

— Margaret Mead

“If you want to ask how evil begins, just look to basic human nature. What’s good gets bent, and bad is the…

— Anonymous

“[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.”

— Joseph Epstein

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled,…

— Ross W. Greene