Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“People hate what they can’t understand, what is different from themselves. They hate it and they want to eradicate it. Violence and… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Amazement of something in front of your eyes, which is so strong that it makes you refuse to believe it. A refusal… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature of which no further account can be given; or whether,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“I really can't handle talking about this for too long because it hurts too much, but I want to say that there… — Jennifer Mathieu Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The imported discovery, that human nature is too good to be made better by discipline, that children are enticed from the right… — Lyman Beecher Copy Share Image
“They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't actually exist while they're working.… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
“Many people continue to say they are staunchly opposed to homosexuality; they reject and repudiate it, saying that it goes against human… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are,… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or… — James De Mille Copy Share Image
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I think it's just in human nature: if you've got two guys fighting, and you don't really know them, you're going to… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
A sensible person is one who has a sensitive nature towards all living creatures and this is his or her best personality… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote,… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“Because the democratic process operates apart from the Church, it possesses no corrective against corrupted human nature beyond its own equally corrupt… — Solange Hertz Copy Share Image
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
