Human Nature Quotes - Page 9

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.