When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
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Sometimes we all need a pat on our shoulder, from a friendly voice saying good job. We are only humans, we are… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
While most of us have long understood that privacy is a fading commodity, something in human nature still expects that a phone… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We talked about who we liked in the University, but more time was spent mulling over who we didn’t like, and why,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more. — Edward Noyes Westcott Copy Share Image
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak… — Donna Leon 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
“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Your own shortcomings are the best ground to grow your sense of humor.” — Stu Konigsberg Copy Share Image
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
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“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“universe.” Tan’elKoth’s tone remained dry and precise, but his face grew ever more grim. “Chambaraya is, one might say, a smaller knot… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I like to gamble. I'd rather win big and lose as well then cling on abjectly and live at the mercy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
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