Human Nature Quotes - Page 3

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.

Fisher Amelie

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

Zora Neale Hurston

Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.

Spike Milligan

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Paulo Coelho

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world

Mark Twain

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man

John le Carré

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

John le Carré

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Alain Finkielkraut

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Matthew Henry

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.

John le Carré

Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being among imperfect human beings again.""Jenny

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

Pindar

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

Alexandre Dumas

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.

Dan Pearce

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell this ship. Your talents were underrated.

David Brin

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

Richard North Patterson

There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and upon us by our own habits and memories; recognition of the ways in which the world presses in on all of us, for it is an intractable place where many things go awry and go astray, where one may all-too-easily lose one’s very self. The epistemological argument is framed by faith, but it stands on its own as an account of willing, nilling, memory, language, signs, affections, delight, the power and the limits of minds and bodies. To the extent that a prideful philosophy refuses to accept these, Augustine would argue, to that extent philosophy hates the human condition itself.

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Love. Passion. Belief. Duty. The lines blur sometomes. There are ove fifteen recognised mjor religions on this planet. One religion believes something different from another, and yet so often it's just the same thing with a different name, or a different form of worship, or a different headdress. But they will fight to protect what they believe in, no matter the cost. You've been here a while Jack. How many wars, how many lives squandered on religion. Then we get to science. Science versus creationism for instance. Two opposing stances on the same subject, neither of which has evidence to back it up

Gary Russell

You know what kind of a man Lonny Tooker is? The kind of a man that sets broken bird's wings.""Hitler loved dogs and babies," Dave said.

Joseph Hansen

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield

Lois McMaster Bujold

When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all.

T.A. Uner

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own futures, but rather acceptance of life on the planet, acceptance of the grays rather than the black-and-whites, acceptance of the astonishing range of human emotion and human behavior.

Chris Crutcher

Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "spread the word," mankind was engaged in all forms of cruel and despicable behavior. To attribute war, killing, and violence to film, TV, and role-play games is to fly in the face of thousands of years of recorded history.

Gary Gygax

I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.

Arthur Graham

- You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

Richard Russo

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Allie Burke

I do not think men are good at all. I have seen enough to know that humans are a wicked race from their very birth. Selfishness defines us. Greed and lust motivate us. And even the best man who ever lived would lie to preserve his own life or beliefs. No, mankind is far from being essentially good. It takes exceptional individuals to change the world, to make a difference. Give the average person a choice, and he will make life miserable for others if only it will make his own life easier.

Brondt Kamffer

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all.

Sigmund Freud

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

Hilary Grossman

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

Russell Banks

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect human beings to withstand the temptation to handle knobs, keys, handles and pushbuttons.

Isaac Asimov

An ugly smile. An ugly soul.

George R.R. Martin

Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.

Jenifer Mohammed

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

William Barrett

Things to know from books to read

Kip Koehler

Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.

Elyse Draper

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Greg Iles

In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.

Lena Hussain

Rather than there being two distinct and unambiguous categories ofconstrained and unconstrained (or tragic and utopian) visions of humannature, I think there is just one vision with a sliding scale. Let’s call this theRealistic Vision. If you believe that human nature is partly constrained inall respects—morally, physically, and intellectually—then you hold aRealistic Vision of human nature.

Michael Shermer

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.

Brandi L. Bates

She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

Jael McHenry

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

Brandi L. Bates

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.

Carl Sagen

Those who cannot dance, should not dance.

Cian Beirdd

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

Brandi L. Bates

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Grace Murray Hopper

Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.

Osamu Tezuka

The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can look up to a star or to the sun himself; or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of a finer thread: for how fine soever that thread may be, it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep, and that sheep was a sheep still for all its wearing it.

Thomas More

I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason that I have not seen the Palais Royal - nor the facade of the Louvre - nor have attempted to swell the catalogues we have of pictures, statues, and churches - I conceive every fair being as a temple, and would rather enter in, and see the original drawings and loose sketches hung up in it, than the Transfiguration of Raphael itself.

Laurence Sterne

I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.

J.D. Salinger

I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who bring out the inner diamonds. I want to be around those intellectual giants who extract the gold within me, those who force me to read, to attend classes, seminars, conferences, and who steep me in an environment of perpetual growth and upward mobility. Not trying to be funny, but I've learned that I simply cannot afford to invest too much time around mediocrity. It's contagious.

Brandi L. Bates

Never try to change the nature of anyone in your life, you will loose respect and eventually the person.

Ashar Siddiqui

You don't have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it's the part of humanity.

Euginia Herlihy

When the sands of time come falling down, we are only left with our choices. Choose wisely; however, some may argue wisdom is relative.

Virginia Vayna

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

Joseph Hansen

I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I’m just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t change that.

Rebekah Joy Anast

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Patrick Rothfuss

It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it appears that the Western mistrust of human nature-whether theological or technological-is a kind of schizophrenia. It would be impossible, in their view, to believe oneself innately evil without discrediting the very belief, since all the notions of a perverted mind would be perverted notions.

Alan W. Watts

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change.

Cormac McCarthy

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