The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is one thing I've learned about people: they don't get that mean and nasty overnight. It's not human nature. But if… — Jennifer Mathieu Copy Share Image
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Your eyes still says you trust your friend. Show me how it looks like when its violated and twisted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Doing something without the intention of being appreciated for the work is the real attribute of human nature. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better. — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
The incarnation of God is a necessity of human nature. If we reap and truly have a Father, we must be able… — Charles Deems Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“While there remains such an idea as the right of each State to control its own local affairs,—an idea, by the way,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“[V]ictimism is an ideology of the ego. But perhaps ideology is too strong a term; victimism can be seen as a generalized… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Teach him to call it ‘real-life and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. (...) Never having been human (...)… — Clive Staples Lewis Copy Share Image
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Most of us are continually engaged in some form of pursuit. We are seeking excellence within one or more areas in our… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Day by day, life goes on and on. Every split of seconds your heart beats, beats! for another day or for another… — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image