Human Nature Quotes - Page 17

• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Doubt

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• Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature in its moments of intoxication has produced, that which men have contrived with a view to forming the minds and regulating the conduct of women, is perhaps the most completely absurd.

  Mary Hays

  Men, Views, Mind

  Mary Hays (1974). “Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of women”, Dissertations-G

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• The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Flower, Genius, Satire

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• The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Prayer, Men, Answers

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• Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Life, Trust, Nature

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• Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

  Dana Stabenow

  Stories, Facts, Principles

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• even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

  Hadewijch

  God, Fall, Trust Yourself

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.49, Paulist Press

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• Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found - although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?

  Maria W. Stewart

  Class, Racism, People

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• Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.

  David Bentley Hart

  Reality, Humanity, Vision

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• Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.

  Cassidy Erin Gifford

  Together, Different, Way

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• It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

  Nikki Sixx

  Fighting, Want, Way

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• Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

  Adrienne Rich

  Destiny, Ideas, Flow

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• the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Reality, Wings, Long

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• power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Passion, Power, Humans

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• It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

  Jo Coudert

  Quirks, Treats, Wells

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.187, iUniverse

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• I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

  Masiela Lusha

  Family, Leadership, Education

  Tolucan Times, October 27, 2010.

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• I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

  Rosamund Pike

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

  Angelina Jolie

  War, Filmmaker, Humans

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• Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

  Aristotle

  Sports, Men, People

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• Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

  Andrew Pyper

  Dark, Desire, Needs

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• It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that.  But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

  Al Gore

  Wish, Dots, Reckoning

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• Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.

  Peter Singer

  People, Understanding, Feelings

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

  Bernard Baruch

  Government, Congress, Humans

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• Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

  Bill Maher

  Tendencies, Humans

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• Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.

  Bill Maher

  Mind, Quality, Want

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