Human nature Quote by Katherine Longshore Download Open image ““Because it is human nature to believe the first story heard, and not its rebuttal.”” — Katherine Longshore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human nature Nature
“Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.” — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“In the end, a simple true story beats a sophisticated theory; a testimony trumps an argument!” — Terry Law Copy Share Image
“If I've learned one thing in the last few days it is that every question does not need to be answered. A story is… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
“He only tells the story once but you see it from about 8 points of view, you have to pay attention the whole time… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
The first thing, the first element of a story that people hear, they believe it. Whether it's right or wrong. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Story is one of the foundation stones of the human mind along with rhythm and chant. If a collection of facts lacks a narrative… — Frank Vehafric Copy Share Image
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never been told.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“people like stories because they are good, not because they are true.” — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
“The walls loom, grey as the rain outside. LIke the sky of England itself. Everything seems colourless and humbled, despite the layers of velvets… — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
“Shut up!' I shouted. 'Why can you not see that my desire to be rid of you has nothing to do with feistiness or… — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
“Hand in hand, we climb the processional stair, rising in the celebratory uproar of a capricious court. As we enter the palace, we are… — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
“Thomas closes the gap between us and kisses me. Hard. This is not wet and sloppy like his playful kisses. Or dry and desperate… — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
“I lean forward, pressing my lips to his, and it breaks me open. His hand leaves my face and traces notes up my arms,… — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
“I will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I… — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
“I rise early that morning and dress in green and brown, my skirst the same colour as the forest floor. I include a cap… — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands the lower… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Though there may be people in your life that support you and encourage you we have to realize that people are only human, and… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.” — Arthur Graham Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image