Human Nature Quotes - Page 40

• Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.

  Sam Shepard

  Running, Character, Blood

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• There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

  David Millar

  Sports, Athlete, Cheater

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• Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Truth, Honesty, Character

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Change, Nature, Life Changing

  Shirley MacLaine (1975). “You Can Get There From here”

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• To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Long, Limits

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• What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Integrity, Mirrors, Hypocrisy

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• Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Men, Divine Power, Capable

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.212, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Humanity, Stressed, Atheism

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• I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

  Anthony Burgess

  Nonsense

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• When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Acceptance, People, Rejection

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1997). “The Great Crash, 1929”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

  Octavio Paz

  Truth, Believe, Thinking

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• Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Joy, Soul, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.77

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• It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

  Harold S. Kushner

  Home, School, Voice

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• The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

  Norman Cousins

  Real, America, World

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• We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Block, Simple, Vision

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Wonder

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• What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Multitudes

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• Man is a social animal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

  "De Beneficiis" Book VII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

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• Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Potters, Poet

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.338

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• The child is the father of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Father, Men

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• That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

  Minnie Pearl

  Remember, Life Is

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• The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• Brevity - the sister of talent.

  Anton Chekhov

  Talent, Brevity

  Letter to Alexander Chekhov, 11 Apr. 1889

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• Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Grace, World

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