Human Nature Quotes - Page 17

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.