Human nature Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“Every development is first rejected, then skeptically accepted, next gradually embraced, and at last abundantly praised. Let's put it straight: it's a human trait.”

— Joan Marques

“Human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest.”

— Neal Shusterman

“The quest for absolute certainty is an immature, if not infantile, trait of thinking.”

— Herbert Feigl

“In our subjective hindrance, we are nevertheless the objectively unhindered expression of nature as one moment transforms into the next.”

— Thomas W. Clark

“Human perversity, then, makes divisions of that which by nature is one and simple, and in attempting to obtain part of something which has…

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

“Nature is capricious and teaches us not to conform ourselves in the belief that we know and that we can predict or even control.”

— Maya Realm

“When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct…”

— Sigmund Freud

“Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case,…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“Where the craving for admiration and approval predominates, intellectual rigor cannot thrive, if it survives at all.”

— Maude Newton

“Each reaction we have is there to inspect us and reveal our own nature to ourselves and for ourselves; it is never about others.”

— Bryant McGill

“If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist.”

— Dew Platt