Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
“It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Pro-life Christians content that although humans differ in their respective degrees of development, they are nonetheless equal because they share a common… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet… — Rose George Copy Share Image
A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Jesse Livermore, who declared in How to Trade in Stocks, “I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are being repeated. They are… — Gil Morales Copy Share Image
“Ginny Cupper took me in her car out to the spread fields of Indiana. Parking near the edge of woods and walking… — J.P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“People are not hooked on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook but on each other. Tools and services come and go; what is constant… — Alfred Hermida Copy Share Image
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one… — Plato Copy Share Image
“God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring.… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own.… — William Pickens Copy Share Image
I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is… — Gardner Murphy Copy Share Image
It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“It’s always our mistakes, the things we aren’t proud of, that are the first ones to stand up, ready to be counted.… — Brooke McKinley 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
My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
“The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image