Human Nature Quotes - Page 38

• People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

  Tammara Webber

  People, Needs, Splits

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• Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

  Aberjhani

  Nature, Fear, Humanity

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• When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

  Meg Cabot

  Want, Blame, Sometimes

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

  David Mitchell

  War, Law, Kitchen

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• As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

  Megan McCafferty

  Thinking, Care, Want

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.149, Broadway Books

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• Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

  Stephen King

  Baby, Humans

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.160, Anchor

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• Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Men, Hypocrisy

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• You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane

  Scott Westerfeld

  Falling In Love, Cities, Helping

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

  J. K. Rowling

  Unique, Appreciate, Faces

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

  Caitlin Moran

  Depressing, Art, Mean

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• It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

  Emily Giffin

  Fleeting, Occasional, Interest

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.60, Macmillan

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• The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Helping, Moments, Attractive

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.69, HarperCollins UK

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• The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hypnosis, Behavior Change, Drug

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.258, Random House

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• Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

  Alan Watts

  Philosophy, Men, Expression

  Alan Watts (1995). “The Philosophies of Asia: The Edited Transcripts”, Tuttle Publishing

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

  Attributed; no source found

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• By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Forgiveness, Strong, Long

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

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• Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Nature, Future

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• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

  David Hume

  History, Principles, Discovering

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• Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Strong, Philosophy

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

  David Hume

  History, Principles, Use

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.90

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• Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.

  William Bernbach

  Powerful, Knowledge, Men

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• If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Running, Love Is

  "The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.

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• I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

  Ayn Rand

  One Day, Liberty, Politics

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