I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In the GDR people were required to acknowledge an assortment of fictions as fact. Some of these fictions were fundamental, such as… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
If you can't say 'NO' to the things that you ain't like to do!! Then you can't be YES MAN — Aalok Atreya Copy Share Image
“Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. His fathers were mighty… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all… — Arnold Joseph Toynbee Copy Share Image
“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often,… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“In combating cynicism, it helps to know its source. Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustated idealist –… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
