Human Nature Quotes - Page 15

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature-

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

All babies are Buddha babies.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

I can't legislate to change human nature.