There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be… — Theodore Dalrymple 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
“At some very low level, we all share certain fictions about time, and they testify to the continuity of what is called… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
I guess it's human nature, as every group breaks into factions, yet at a time when we are trying to be taken… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The problem is not technological,” he said. “And there is no technological solution to it. The problem is human, human nature in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“He taught us that everyone has a story and the more you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes… — Danielle Teller Copy Share Image
Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often… — Lucy Fisher Copy Share Image
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“You know what Human means? HUMAN means Harmonious across Hate, Undivided through Diversity, Mindful amidst Mindlessness, Amiable amidst Apathy, and Neighborly amidst… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image