Quotes About Human nature

Visions are projections of one's fundamental beliefs and assumptions about human nature, technology, economics, science, politics, art, ethics, and the like. A vision of the future is much like a literary or musical theme. It's the paramount, persistent, and pervasive message that you want to convey, the frequently recurring melody that you want people to remember; and whenever repeated, it reminds the audience of the entire work.

Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.

but people forget. Always. It's got to be one of the fundamental laws of the universe.

The laws of physics are totally different from human laws, because human laws are decisions," Ellie says. "They aren't facts.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

Most people start eating healthy after the doctor says they have a problem. That's just human nature.

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

The natural state of man is war. I think that peace is an interval for preparation." The novel is significant because