Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Human Nature Quotes
Human nature will not change. In any great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to […]
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature – a type nowhere at present existing.
Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.
In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer.
It is human nature to hate whom you have injured.
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: ‘There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.’
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Even quite common people have souls, and no increases in pay will make up to them for conditions that insult their self-respect or interfere with their freedom… Industry must satisfy human needs if it is not to be paralyzed by repeated revolts on the part of outraged human nature.
