Human Nature Quotes

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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
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
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
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
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
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
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. — Henry Adams
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
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
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. — Joseph Addison
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. — Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. — Ezra Taft Benson
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
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. — Aesop
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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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