Quotes on Human Nature

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

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

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.