Quotes About Human nature

Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think it's inevitable. I think it's just human nature.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Van Meegeren wasn't an artistic genius, but he intuitively understood something about human nature. Sometimes, we want to be fooled.

the most powerful force in human nature is the spiritual-power technique taught in the Bible . . . faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself.

Have you noticed that human beings don't have any patience? It's always about them.

A hypocrite is a person who—but who isn't? —DON MARQUIS I

never forget that underneath all the math and the MBA bullshit talk, we are all still emotionally driven human

Steven Pinker: anything. He's one of the clearest thinkers and communicators of our time. Among many other things, he convinced me that I could never understand myself without understanding how humans evolved.

No human being was ever meant to be the source of personal joy and contentment for someone else. And surely, no sinner is ever going to be able to pull that off day after day in the all-encompassing relationship of marriage!

The power of self-interest is still present in the believer

that human nature is such that American democracy must be defended from Americans who would exploit its freedoms to bring about its end.