The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature.”… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You can trust everyone to be human, with all the quirks and inconsistencies we humans display, including disloyalty, dishonesty and downright treachery.… — Stephen Russell Copy Share Image
Most of you face a discorded life. I know that we'll need some sort of refuge or pillar to hang onto. Some… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
For a very long time, people have been saying to me, "What if you want to do this approach with every kid?"… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“It’s the behavioral pattern with many, in that having committed an indiscretion in the first place; they tend to assume an aggressive… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I approached her like a gentleman and she brushed me off..(yrs later) Pulled up in a '13 Benz approached her like an… — Jasari Copy Share Image
I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
“His advent in human nature was not by the will of a man, but by the will of God.” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“There were always such dwellings--the abode of the cook or the man who tended the yard, or the woman who did the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To say the truth, every physician, almost, hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature.” — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned enough about human nature to know that behind anger or bitterness or hurt there’s always a wound, or fear, or… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“When we do something wrong we want people to forgive us but when someone does something wrong we never want to forgive… — Vignesh S.V Copy Share Image
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature — Nadine Gordimer 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
“I used to think freedom was freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience. But freedom is the whole life… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
