But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.
Human Nature Quotes
Such is human-nature. The man who drinks beer at home always criticizes the champagne, and finds fault with the Burgundy when he is invited out to dinner.
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. . . We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
There is a great deal of human nature in people.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
Extremes in Nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use.
I reckon there’s as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
For such is the weakness of human nature, alas, that evil is often more readily believed and spoken of another than good. But perfect men do not easily believe every tale that is told them, for they know that man’s nature is prone to evil, and his words to deception.
For the first time in four billion years a species on this planet has read its own recipe, or is in the process of reading its own recipe. That seems to me to be an epochal moment, because we’re going to get depths of insight into the nature of human nature that we never could […]
