Human Nature Quotes - Page 33

• I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

  David Duchovny

  Mean, Thinking, Want

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• Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Expenses, Flatterer

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

  E. M. Forster

  Literature, England, Accepting

  E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

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• The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Army, Soldier, Navy

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.283

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• It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

  Amy Grant

  Cheer, People, Tears

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• You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

  Robert Harris

  War, Winning, Crime

  "'A Writer Close to the Power Elite': Interview With Robert Harris". Interview with Christina Patterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Laughing, Age

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• Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Believe, Umpires

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, August 11, 1890.

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• Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Inspirational, Funny, Knowing

  "'Avengers' Star Tom Hiddleston on His Supervillain Character: 'His Whole Life is a Lie' " by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 03, 2012.

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• Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Jobs, Coffee, Stories

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• There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

  David Hume

  Ideas, Emotion, Remarkable

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.175, 谷月社

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• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

  William James

  Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.486

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• There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

  Greg Kinnear

  Struggle, People, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Greek, Hibernation, Able

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 44, 1799.

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• Human nature fascinates me.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Humans

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• Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

  Mary Matalin

  Self, Numbers, People

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• The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

  Joyce Meyer

  Self, Lazy, Flesh

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• It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Trying, Way, Reason

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• But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

  David Millar

  Cheater, People, Way

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• Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

  Sienna Miller

  Achieve, Monogamy, Humans

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• Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Literature, Sometimes

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Different, Vulnerable, Fooled

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• Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, Empathy, Violence

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