Human Nature Quotations

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

If you will it, it is no dream

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

What you are will show in what you do.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

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.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever,

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.