Human nature Quote by Richard K. Morgan Download Open image ““...the tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.”” — Richard K. Morgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human nature Truth
“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Men's truths rather too neatly fit their convenience, have you ever noticed that?” — Jean Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.” — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“(Lies are like leashes. Tug them just so, and all who believe them will comply.)” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“My words still sounded lame, but the truth so often limps off the tongue in times of crisis. Just when we most need to… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Trust no truth offered by man, for how can he know truth when his heart is full of lies.” — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
“Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“However, the truth requires one to make an effort if one is to be freed from misconceptions and lies. You” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.” — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
“Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again.” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies.” “Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic.” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in and out… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face.… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“... it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them.… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But if the… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“The human eye is a wonderful device,” I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. “With a little effort, it can fail to see… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Overhead soft-bellied clouds panic toward the horizon like whales before the harpoon, and the wind runs addict's fingers through the trees that line the… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer.… — Richard K. Morgan 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
