Effort Quote by Xun Kuang

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and…

— Abraham Maslow

As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its…

— Michael J Cohen

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

— Abraham Lincoln

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

— Abraham Maslow

“It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature.…

— Erich Fromm

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

— Rita Rudner

We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Human nature is a work in progress.

— Nick Bostrom

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

— Anonymous

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness…

— Alan Lightman