Quotes About Human nature

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.