Quotes About Human nature

Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

Oh, the wickedness of man is very great, said Villefort, since it surpasses the goodness of God.

All those "why" questions are rooted in culture, which is to say, in ethical beliefs. I emphasize the point not to denigrate the achievements of scientists, but only to remind that natural science cannot by itself fathom the sources of the crisis it has identified, for the sources lie not in the nature that scientists study but in the human nature and, especially, in the human culture that historians and other humanists have made their study.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

Rasa cemburu adalah obat yang lebih adiktif dan memuaskan daripada apa pun yang dikenal oleh umat manusia. Efeknya instan, menyambar kita lebih cepat daripada kilat, dan membuat kita mabuk dalam sekejap. Begitu kita berada di sana, teler berkat hal yang disebut kecemburuan ini, kita melihat kesempatan untuk curiga di mana-mana.

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

If we could be seen thinking, we would show blown bright one moment, dark the next, like embers; subject to every passing word and thought of our own or other people's, mostly other people's.

There was an old joke that had always struck Delamater as defining of the human species. A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for ten million dollars. She agrees. He then asks if she would sleep with him for a dollar. She is aghast. "What kind of woman do you take me for?" she asks. To that, the man responds, "We have established what you are, madam. Now we're just haggling over the price.

He says we've evolved to be selfish, cruel, and horrible in every way. But we've also evolved to be compassionate, loving, loyal, and amazing in every way." "Right,

Human evolution favors anxiety over happiness.

First, and perhaps most importantly, despair and pessimism are in our very natures. We're wired to seek out bad news over good, and to always fear the worst. So bad news seizes our attention, while good news is often ignored.

even her intuition and knowledge of human nature were far from perfect. She understood it in the aggregate, but in any given situation, who knew?

Human beings behaved the way they behaved, decided the way they decided, driven by an amalgam of genes and impulses and evolution and instincts and drives and mysterious unconscious controllers that fooled the conscience into believing it was in charge.

Here are a few selections from Ridley's Rational Optimist: Page 27: Besides, a million years of natural selection shaped human nature to be ambitious to rear successful children, not to settle for contentment: people are programmed to desire, not to appreciate.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.