Human Nature Quotes
1432 quotes by 897 authors
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of…
— Jane Austen
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's…
— Diane Ackerman
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state…
— James A. Baldwin
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get…
— Alan Ball
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
— Honore de Balzac
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
— Henry Adams
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character…
— Bernard Baruch
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It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into…
— William Bernbach
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
— Joseph Addison
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use,…
— Alfred Adler
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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
— Aesop
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose.…
— Geraldine Brooks
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