Human Nature Quotes
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It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.
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A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.
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The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
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. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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He had forgotten that the most elemental instinct in human nature is not hate but love, the former inextricably linked to the latter.
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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
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War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
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I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.
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When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
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Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.
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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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Democracy has no place for the kind of justice implied in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Democracy is a system for the resolution of conflict, not for vengeance. Simple black-white notions of right and wrong do not fit into democratic politics. Political controversies result from the fact that the issues are complex, and men may properly have differences of opinion about them. The most terrible of all over-simplifications is the notion that politics is a contest between good people and bad people. Democracy is based on a profound insight into human nature, the realization that all men are sinful, all are imperfect, all are prejudiced, and none knows the whole truth. That is why we need liberty and why we have an obligation to hear all men. Liberty gives us a chance to learn from other people, to become aware of our own limitations, and to correct our bias. Even when we disagree with other people we like to think that they speak from good motives, and while we realize that all men are limited, we do not let ourselves imagine that any man is bad. Democracy is a political system for people who are not sure that they are right.
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The words “human nature” can be the greatest obstacle to human growth.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.
