Human Nature Quotes - Page 6

• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Attitude, Character

  Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

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• I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Peace, Laughter

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

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• Only the shallow know themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

  Voltaire

  Journey, Hiking, Thought Provoking

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.109, Penguin

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• It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, Together

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The belly comes before the soul.

  George Orwell

  Soul, Belly

  George Orwell (2000). “Essays”, p.325, Penguin UK

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• People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

  Aristotle

  People, Political, Ends

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Aeterna Press

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• By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

  Edwin Markham

  Rights, Two, Levels

  Edwin Markham (1900). “The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author”

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• For greed, all nature is too little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Philosophical, Greed

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

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• If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

  William Penn

  Speak, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

  David Hume

  Born, Unfortunate, Humans

  'My Own Life' (1777) ch. 1

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• It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Talent, Extremes

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.46

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• We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mother, Men, Effort

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• The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

  John Dewey

  Important, Desire, Feels

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• We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Future, Mirrors, Rear View

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• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

  James Madison

  Reflection, Government, Federalist

  1788 The Federalist, Jan.

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• It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

  Anatole France

  Fashion, Thinking, Fools Day

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1885.

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• Human nature is not of itself vicious.

  Thomas Paine

  Nature, Motivation, Vicious

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.166, Ravenio Books

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• It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

  Denis Diderot

  Conventions, Should, Humans

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

  Yehuda Bauer

  Bystanders, Holocaust, May

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• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Weakness, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1828). “A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens”, p.40

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• The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

  Woody Allen

  Happiness, Happy, Appreciate

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• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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