It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the… — William James Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
“there's something wrong with my ears I can't shut them like I can shut my eyes” — Henry Hoke Copy Share Image
The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn’t need to… — Tom Upton Copy Share Image
Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I've learned to accept people's lack of long-term… — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“...That, however, was not what our scholar was concerned to prove; for he maintained that the Great Wall alone would provide for… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“For each now strives to isolate his person as much as possible from the others, wishing to experience within himself life's completeness,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Human nature," I continued, "has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after"… — Eddie Muller 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.” — William Bernstein Copy Share Image
When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
“When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.” — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
“...suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.” — Janne Teller Copy Share Image
“Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.” — Ray Bourhis Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“It is its sanctification of the base human instincts that makes Islam the menace of all mankind” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It's what being human… — James Lusarde Copy Share Image
“You know what kind of a man Lonny Tooker is? The kind of a man that sets broken bird's wings." "Hitler loved… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature. — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
