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Human Nature Quotes - Page 7

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human Nature, Goodness, Humans

Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.40, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Marshall McLuhan

Future, Mirrors, Human Nature

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

Believe, Men, Human Nature

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

Luc de Clapiers

Weather, Human Nature, Should

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Tragedy, Human Nature, Satire

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Law, Despair, Human Nature

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Human Nature, Notes, Nurture

Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Society, Human Nature

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

Men, Light, Human Nature

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

War, Human Nature, Habit

Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

Light, Darkness, Human Nature

Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.145, Harmony

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

Spiritual, Emotional, Human Nature

FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 21, 2010

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Noble, Human Nature

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.635, Delphi Classics

Know not to revere human things too much.

Too Much, Limits, Human Nature

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

Angel, Might, Human Nature

Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.59

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

Speak, Human Nature, Ifs

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.34, Courier Corporation

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

Saint John Chrysostom

Knowing, Environmental, Human Nature

Saint John Chrysostom (1986). “Homilies on Genesis”, p.100, CUA Press

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

Saint John Chrysostom

Men, Flesh, Human Nature

Saint John Chrysostom (1996). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Chrysostom: On the priesthood; Ascetic treatises; Select homilies and letters; Homilies on the statutes”, Burns & Oates

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Rafael Sabatini

Ridiculous, Human Nature, Humans

Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.10, DoctorZed Publishing

Everyone is born a genius.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Genius, Human Nature, Born

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Too Much, Human Nature, Humans

FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jun 11, 2016

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

Water, Flow, Human Nature

Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.58

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Humanity, Human Nature, Scoundrels

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

Marie Bashkirtseff

Stupidity, Human Nature, Humans

Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Human Nature, Indecision, Middle

Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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