Human-nature Quotes

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out i...

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without so...

Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel ...

Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he find...

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human d...

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse h...

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

Perhaps there is a beast...maybe it's only us.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existen...

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just ...

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happen...

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their ...

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer...

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge t...

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certai...

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their live...

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attri...

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic co...

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that in...

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s b...

Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swa...

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.

Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weak...

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel unc...

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

One always has hope for human nature

Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act i...

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our...

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with th...

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you yo...

402Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you...

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as ...

I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to...

the evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as...

In the long run one gets used to anything.

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light...

the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipp...

Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cook...

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survi...

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art—and by art I m...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land...

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, i...

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

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they...

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever pe...

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forev...

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they ...

Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of...

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

There’s something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot…It’s significa...

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of...

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven’t got a family of their own, they will inv...

Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pie...

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is me...

Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciti...

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, ...

After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth ...

Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about ...

When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encounter...

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it ta...

The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books a...

Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings,...

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned ...

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he re...

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it tak...

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends o...

Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They wi...

The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will ...

We are to feed the new nature on the Word of God constantly, and we are to starve the old nature, wh...

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting th...