Best Human Nature Quotes
1432 Human Nature quotes by 868 unique authors
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
— Joseph Campbell
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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the…
— Joseph Campbell
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
— Albert Camus
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
— Albert Camus
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
— Shana Alexander
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming…
— Dale Carnegie
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If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
— Jim Carrey
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
— Noam Chomsky
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
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It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
— Frank A. Clark
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
— Woody Allen
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
— Hermann Hesse
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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
— Stephen Leacock
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
— Anthony Burgess
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
— Moliere
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster…
— Octavio Paz
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of…
— Harold S. Kushner
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