Quotes About Human nature

Human nature will not change," Lincoln said in response to a serenade in 1864. "In any future great national trial," he predicted, Americans would find people who were exactly "as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good" as those who lived in his day.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.

A number of politicians have failed to recognise the consistent truth of history: that we're both an emotional and a rational species, and that we make decisions very emotionally.

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

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.

While most of us have long understood that privacy is a fading commodity, something in human nature still expects that a phone call or email is a closed communication, and we tend to behave as though it is. That behaviour is what the electronic spies count upon, and want to preserve.

I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

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?

Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.