In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
“What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Hobbes took the madness of his age, considered it “normal,” and projected it back into prehistoric epochs of which he knew next… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening. — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“Look back on Time, with kindly eyes - He doubtless did his best - How softly sinks that trembling sun In Human… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But human nature is not to be totally changed even by such a force as the Reformation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature. — Henry Cantwell Wallace Copy Share Image
“If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they’d all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another’s… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.” — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again. — Horace Copy Share Image
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Without touch, what kind of culture do we create? One where isolation and disconnection reign.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
