Human Nature Quotes - Page 10

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy.

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

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

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.

The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

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

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.