Human Nature Quotes - Page 3

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

I think markets will never be efficient because of human nature.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Human nature is a work in progress.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?