Human nature Quote by Anonymous

“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people;…

— Dostoyevsky

“But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

“But man is an odd, sad creature as yet, intent on pilfering the earth, and heedless of the growths within himself. He cannot be…

— E.M. Forster

“Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Willful ignorance is blissful only in the mind of a remarkable fool.”

— Tracey Bond

“If we read the new masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it those reflections of ours that we…

— Alain de Botton

“He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I…

— Oscar Wilde

“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read the latest…

— Marcel Proust