Quotes About Human nature

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.