Browsing Topic Best Human Nature Quotes

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Don’t wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not ‘content creator’?

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you’ve never had.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it’s not about you at the end of the day.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Our nature is to chase the teasing and elusive butterfly of happiness, not always to capture it.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It’s an element introduced into life by the person himself.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response – that is, high touch – or the technology is rejected… We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.