If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all… — Nigel Hey Copy Share Image
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
As humans we all make mistakes, factors we have no control over impact our lives daily, recognizing that mistakes are an inevitable… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person… — Kelleen Goerlitz Copy Share Image
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“If we persist in defining ourselves as doomed, human nature as beyond redemption, and social institutions as beyond reform, then we shall… — Samuel P. Oliner Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“It’s a matter of curiosity—and anyone who says they are utterly indifferent to what their significant exes are doing is, in my… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Not everybody is going to understand you. You can't please everybody. That's just human nature. Everybody has their opinion, and that's going… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and… — Summer Rayne Oakes Copy Share Image
“And so perhaps it was entirely possible - common, even - for you to look into the eyes of someone you'd been… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
“Lincoln once began a letter saying: “Everybody likes a compliment.” William James said: “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Lock And Key Are Made of Same Metal. Lock Is Always Bigger Than The Key. Problems Are Like Lock And Solutions Are… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“On my way out I didn't look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn't look at him… — Assaf Gavron Copy Share Image
When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
“Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?' 'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Auch wenn wir das Meer vor vierhundert Millionen Jahren (nach meinem Kalender) verlassen haben, das Meer hat uns nicht verlassen. Es ist… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such;… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it… — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect.… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image