Best Human Nature Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

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

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

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

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

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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.

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.

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

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.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people’s emotional nature.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to ‘fly’ as far as eagles under our own power.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?… With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there’s a heap of choice in the cuts.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.