Human Nature Quotes - Page 12

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

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

I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Human nature is fond of novelty.