Human Nature Quotes - Page 5

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I believe in order to understand

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.