Human Nature Quotes - Page 2

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

False hope is worse than despair.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.