It's human nature for everyone to say 'what if,' but I try to snap out of it as quickly as I can… — Kyle Carpenter Copy Share Image
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
People are hypocritical. That's just human nature. I embrace my hypocrisy. Once you come to grips with who you are and what's… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“When a new company is formed, its founders must have a startup mentality—a beginner’s mind, open to everything because, well, what do… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A lesson without Pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something else in return. But once you have overcome… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Expecting the US government to operate a massive surveillance machine in complete secrecy without falling prey to its temptations runs counter to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human in not having to be just happy or just sad in… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass… — Danielle Dax Copy Share Image
We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must… — John P. Kotter 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
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
“Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of… — Mohammed Rasmi Copy Share Image
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When there's an opportunity knocking on your door, do not be afraid to answer it. By having the courage to take risks,… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
