Human nature Quotes · Page 43

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

— Jonah Lehrer

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who…

— Thucydides

“Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.”

— Lolly Daskal

You cannot understand a thing, you begin to abuse it because it insults you.

— Osho

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

— Dan Brown

“Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.”

— David L Lloyd

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do…

— Plato

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

— Ayn Rand

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life…

— Stephen Hawking

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were…

— Moliere

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows…

— Honore de Balzac

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of…

— Aristotle

“Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything…

— Uzoma Nnadi

“Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't…

— David Morrell

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very…

— Nathaniel Branden

Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled…

— Oswald Chambers

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about…

— Steven Pinker

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he…

— Friedrich Engels

“Death is a fascinating thing. The human mind continually returns and returns to death, to mortality, immortality, damnation, salvation. Some fear death,…

— Marya Hornbacher

“I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of…

— Steven Pinker

“Another war is always coming Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human…

— Mitchell David

“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything…

— Ashley Montagu

I think it's good to have your own selfish interests, whether it's liking chocolate ice cream or wanting a new car. It's…

— Les Wexner

Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.…

— Stefan Zweig

“•Spirit is like hell of difficulties, problems, etc .. But only we humans create our life easy heaven by spreading love all over.”

— Lav bamaniya

“Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.”

— Mary Shelley

“The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.”

— Alan Sheinwald

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

— Stephen Jay Gould

It's human nature, once you have success you kind of exhale and think you have it figured out.

— Matthew Slater

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

— Anonymous

“Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.”

— Osamu Tezuka

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

— Caitlin Thomas

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

— Ludwig von Mises

When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

— Amos Oz

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

— Aldous Huxley

“Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.”

— Rachel Aukes

“The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".”

— Stefan Molyneux

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

Our shouting is louder than our actions. Our swords are taller than us. That is our tragedy.

— Nizar Qabbani

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

— Katherine Anne Porter