Human Nature Quotes - Page 13

• I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Too Much, Found, Wells

  J. P. Donleavy (2007). “A Fairy Tale of New York”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of the limitations of human nature and [find] safety in abasement. I know many things that are unknown to most men, yet I am more ignorant than all others. I rejoice because Christ, 'whom I have believed' (II Tim. 1:12), has bestowed on me an eternal and unshakable kingdom, yet I constantly weep as one who is unworthy of that which is above, and I cease not.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Men, Safety

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• Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.

  Robert Zubrin

  Mistake, Moon, Race

  Robert Zubrin (1999). “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization”, Tarcher

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• The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Depth

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• The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

  Xunzi

  Men, Evil, Nature Of Man

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• Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

  Edward T. Hall

  Light, Shining, Desire

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• You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

  Mark Russell

  Baseball, Football, Games

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• I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Thinking, Should Have, Secret

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• Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

  Lynne Cheney

  Girl, Boys, Littles

  "The Truth & Lynne Cheney". Women's Quarterly Interview, Spring 2001.

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• I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

  Susan Cain

  Curious, Humans

  "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking," by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

  Susan Cain

  Jobs, Writing, Lucky

  "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking," by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Spirit

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Liberty, Causes, Opinion

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• It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

  Mireille Enos

  Focus, Secret, Want

  "Q&A – Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

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• The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

  Carl Sagan

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Business, Fire, Conversation

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• After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Order, Alive

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• A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

  William Delbert Gann

  Business, Successful, Opposites

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• If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Temptation, Might

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.135, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Blessed, Firsts, Humans

  Martin Chemnitz (1979). “De Coena Domini”

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• But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

  Lucy Hale

  Lying, White, Here And There

  "An In-Depth Conversation With the Cast of ‘Pretty Little Liars’". Interview with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, bullettmedia.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sorry, Philosophy, Humans

  "Song: "Human Nature" ("Bedtime Stories")". 1994.

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• People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

  Stacy Keach

  People, Want, Humans

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• Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Real, Tvs, Modern

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• The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Yoga, Self

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