Human nature Quote by C.S. Lewis Download Open image ““the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things.”” — C.S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human nature Nature Nature of man
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“There's enough ugliness in the world without having to feel guilty about the beauty.” — Lisa Samson Copy Share Image
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“There is no greater beauty than kindness and no worse ugliness than rudeness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Standing by and doing nothing while humanity becomes uglier isn't for me.” — Cara Dee Copy Share Image
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“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
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“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.” — Arthur Graham Copy Share Image
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