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
“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
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
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
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Human nature is human nature. We subject ourselves to things we know we might not be able to endure. We do it… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
“But we do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Remember Samson’s parents when they saw what they thought was God, exclaimed, “we shall surely die, for we have seen God”. Hebrews… — Patrick Davis 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it… — GE Paulus Copy Share Image
“So there was no excuse; nothing whatever the matter, except the sin for which human nature had condemned him to death; that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“This is good. Yes, I'm crying. But it'll feel better. This is just human nature, healing an old wound to prepare for… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image