“Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.” — Nocturnus Libertus Copy Share Image
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“In the human mind, doubt has a faster rate of growth than even hope, and we know what that meant for poor… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.” — George R.R. Martin 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
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“the human nature whose strong quality it brings out and reveals. To attribute any nobility to war itself is as much a… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“But the people only talked about how ugly her face looked. No one even bothered to mention what a sweet, kindhearted girl… — Janaki Sooriyarachchi Copy Share Image
“The best way to bury the truth is to present it as an intricate puzzle. Let everyone get lost in the clever… — Irina Semikop Copy Share Image
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“It is also interesting to observe that communal ownership violates every instinct of human nature. It destroys initiative, nullifies free agency, suppresses… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behaviour at this time are those… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“In company with all of these achievements, and yet after them all, God fulfilled for our sake the truly new mystery of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will… — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Copy Share Image
“But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“But, on the other hand, the study of music is one of the best ways to learn about human nature. This is… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“...it is part of [human nature] to comply with one another for the greater good of our social organization...” — John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication Copy Share Image
“It was an organization of obstacles and precautions—based at bottom on a profound suspicion of human nature.”11 Furthermore,” — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'? — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. — Leon Surmelian Copy Share Image
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
“we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image