Quotes About Human nature

It seems a pity that Psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. It is a natural enough catastrophe; for the very act of changing it from a matter of common sense to a matter of scientific enquiry, labelled and separated as a science, involves a change which nobody has adequately noted.

...but yet they grumbled. Such is human-nature. The man who drinks beer at home always criticizes the champagne, and finds fault with the Burgundy when he is invited out to dinner.

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.

History is to the effect that man's sins always find him out; but men continue to bet that they won't.

A cross-section of our society to-day represents the entire geological formation of human nature for 40,000 years. We need but look on the faces of the men about us as we go down the street. All history is here this minute.

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

The truth is that we've always been greedy and stupid. We have no imagination, and the only reason we've survived this long is that we produce just enough smart people to keep us going.

It is human nature, to give in hope of getting.

this world contains an irreducible minority of sick sons of bitches, and sooner or later one of them is going to impinge on your life, and mine.

natural state for human beings. We need to explore. We're curious. We want to adapt constantly to new environments and use the part of our brain that evolved specifically so we could create new works of art or new productions.

We spend vast amounts of our time an emotional energy in learning how not to be natural and in eluding the trap of our own nature and it therefore becomes very difficult to know exactly what is meant when we speak of the unnatural. It is not possible to have it both ways, to use nature at one time as the final arbiter of human conduct and at another to oppose her as angrily as we do.

There seems to be a vast amount of confusion in the Western world concerning these matters, but love and sexual activity are not synonymous: Only by becoming inhuman can the human being pretend that they are. The mare is not obliged to love the stallion, nor is the bull required to love the cow. They are doing what comes naturally.

Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one of the other and most people are both.

People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)

they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward, but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either of an individual or of human nature in general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing.

Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world.

History is a record of human nature in action.

Why should we fight them when their own greed and stupidity's destroying them. Eh?