Quotes About Human nature

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.