Human Nature Quotes
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Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Kuang
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. Forster -
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus -
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
Xun Kuang -
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Xun Kuang
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. Donleavy -
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 -
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 -
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
John Milton -
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
Edgar Ramirez -
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
Natalie Dormer
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Liu Xiaobo -
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
Xun Kuang -
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
Laura Dern -
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Walter Bagehot -
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
N. K. Jemisin -
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
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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 -
Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
Laura Dern -
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
Paddy Considine -
Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
Xun Kuang