Human nature Quote by Anonymous

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

— Francis William Newman

Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally…

— Jim Butcher

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

— Vernor Vinge

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they…

— Aristotle

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

— Gabriel Marcel

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has…

— Ludwig von Mises

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy…

— Napoleon Hill

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is…

— Charles Dickens

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making…

— Erich Fromm

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

— Ernst Mach