Plutarch Quotes
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
Nathaniel Branden -
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus -
Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
J. G. Ballard -
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde -
I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Pat Conroy
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Xun Kuang -
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi -
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
Adam Clarke -
Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
Aristotle -
The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.
R. C. Sproul -
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
Angelina Jolie
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The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
Zeno of Citium -
There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
Brian Tracy -
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
Barack Obama -
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Oscar Wilde -
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.
R. H. Tawney -
Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.
W. T. Purkiser