Human Nature Quotations | Page 2

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

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.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

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

Beware! I'm acting under the influence of human nature.

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

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

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.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

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.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

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

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others

One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.

I don't think so. Human nature is pretty nasty.

For movie "Human Nature": "I made a pubic wig.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature.

We may be seeing a coming together of the humanities and the science of human nature.

Human nature says we can relax, that they aren't fully loaded. That relaxation is not a bad thing, but it kind of deteriorates the focus aspect of the game.

Human nature is the same everywhere in the world, ... The thought that there are lots of people with time on their hands to explore what the 20 million Internet users in China are doing is totally impractical.

Human nature being what it is, we tend to say we're following all the guidelines when in reality we're not.

human nature being what it is, those who want to evade the clear statement of the instruction will have ample opportunities to seek loopholes, evasions and rationalizations.

I think it's human nature that we all tend to do much better in groups than we do alone.

I think that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions.

I think that's just human nature to make you want to work harder to improve yourself, and I think that'll be a positive for me.

We've thought about it. It's human nature. I'm not going to lie about it. But we know we have to get by this game.

That was a good class last year. A bunch of those kids have helped us already and a lot more will down the road. But one kid can affect the mood of a class. We lost one on signing day last year and everyone was really down. This year, we picked one up and it's a completely different attitude. That's human nature, I understand that.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses

When you're going against arguably the best defensive lineman in the game, you're going to lose some sleep at night, especially when you're feeling that he's in a zone. It's human nature. If you see me ball up my fist to hit you, you're going to move out the way, right? Just imagine that. When you start taking those punches, sooner or later you're going to jerk back.

We needed to go into that locker room with a smile. Human nature says, too, that after going through what we've been through, you need to go into the locker room and smile and pat each other on the back a little bit.

You know, it's almost human nature. If you give me a gift, I feel indebted to you... assuming it's a substantial gift.

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

We played well the last two periods. But it's only human nature to be down a bit when you're not scoring goals. We had three or four point-blank shots that just didn't go in. But we kept trying and eventually they went.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

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

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...

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

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

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.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?

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.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it...

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

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

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.

To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the g

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Is it human nature that we're going to be complacent? I don't see that in any way, ... As a staff, we've worked harder and longer and recruited more than ever before. Probably the opposite of what you think has happened we're more driven then ever.

You sneak a peek at the what-ifs. It's human nature.

Your frame of mind is a little different after that and human nature kicks in. Our losses - not only a couple in a row, but any one of them - we felt like we could have won. It takes its toll.

All of us have a theory about human nature.

The more we study human nature, the less we think of men - the more of man

It's just human nature to take your immediate surroundings for granted. I think that's changing some. We're seeing more of our churches finding ways to meet needs. The need is going to be greater because World Changers isn't here.

It's sort of a study in the human nature of how things like this can happen and how turning a blind eye on the subject allowed baseball to recover in the late '90s and 2000 with the offensive explosion. And now, how the right steps have been taken by the players' association and the commissioner's office to totally cleanse the game.

It's human nature to always look at what your neighbor is doing.

It's human nature. The team that's got something to play for will always play harder than the team that doesn't have anything to play for. It's just a matter of going out there and taking it.

They define something special in human nature. They give us a measure of what's possible and what's truly sensational or phenomenal.

Things came to us real easy in the first period. It is a little bit of human nature to let your foot off the gas a bit after a start like that. When a game is so easy at the start it is a hard game to play.

If the Martians can translate this and interpret it, it will give them an interesting view of human nature.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.