A simple experiment will distinguish two types of human nature. Gather a throng of people and pour them into a ferryboat. By the time the boat swings into the river you will find that a certain proportion have taken the trouble to climb upstairs in order to be out on deck and see what is […]
Human Nature Quotes
All men by nature desire to know.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Ya don’t hafta know how to read or write, When you’re out with a feller in the pale moonlight. Ya don’t hafta look in a book to find, What he thinks of the moon and what is on his mind. That comes natur’lly.
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly… Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature – what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action – if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
