Quotes About Human nature

Why do humans never really learn the lessons we are supposed to? What is in our makeup, in fact, that draws us to that which should sicken us?

Those who believe that we are anything other than animals are blind. All humans are savages. The ones who are well fed are just lazier. They don't need to kill to get their food. So they dress up and find so-called loftier pursuits that make them believe that they are somehow above it all. Such nonsense. Savages are just hungrier. That was all. You do horrible things to survive. Anyone who believes that they are above that is delusional.

Hell, I want to Hugh Jackman a sponge bath. So what? You can;t help what you want. You're human. Let it go.

We want to make people consistent and predictable and simple, but they never are.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.