Human Nature Quotes - Page 11

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

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

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

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

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

We come to feel as we behave.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise. Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.

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