Best Human Nature Quotations
1432 Human Nature quotes by 868 unique authors
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That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!
— Minnie Pearl
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Brevity - the sister of talent.
— Anton Chekhov
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
— Hermann Hesse
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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
— Mark Twain
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In order to exist, man must rebel.
— Albert Camus
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The belly comes before the soul.
— George Orwell
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You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on…
— Billie Holiday
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Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.
— Christian Friedrich Hebbel
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
— Aristotle
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
— Seneca the Younger
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
— Horace Walpole
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into…
— Anton Chekhov
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True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
— Confucius
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Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.
— Elvis Presley
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
— Mencius
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
— Robert Burns
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Few men think, yet all will have opinions.
— George Berkeley
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Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
— Elvis Presley
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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher…
— Edwin Markham
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For greed, all nature is too little.
— Seneca the Younger
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
— Thomas Jefferson
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
— William Penn
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