Human nature Quote by Peter De Vries Download Open image “This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.” — Peter De Vries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human nature Humans Introspection Irony Knows May Nature Nature of man Self-Awareness Shabby Stuff
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more. — Edward Noyes Westcott Copy Share Image
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them. — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you. — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues.… — Peter De Vries 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
