Words matter. These are the best Human Nature Quotes from famous people such as Alison Gopnik, Yehuda Berg, Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Haydon, John McAfee, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It’s hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There’s an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can’t really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
I’m an advocate of human nature.
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature .
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it’s clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature.
Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.
In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
It’s human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it’s also arrogant.
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people’s emotional nature.
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.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
But I think ‘Love, Actually’ has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant’s character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it’s about who we really are as a species.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.
It’s human nature to wonder.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.
That’s the thing: when I listen on public transport, my headphones act as a separator – a wired barrier between me and the nearest people. Yet my podcasts drag me through the depths of human nature.
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn’t be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Any hit films, impact-creating films, leave their mark on the industry. It is in human nature to try to follow something that is creating an impact.
It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.
I think it’s human nature to say, ‘You’re a wrestler. That is what you do.’ I think it can be hard sometimes for people to understand that you can have more than one thing you like to do.
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature’s precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
There’s something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
What’s so wonderful about ‘The Walking Dead’ is that we’re able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.
It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.
I think that it’s human nature to categorize and label things. That’s generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look at elements of what you have, and you are able to categorize it, and then you can cure it. That’s generally what works.
People want to typecast you; it’s human nature.
I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on ‘Mastermind’.
I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn’t be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It’s kind of unusual and wonderful!
It’s human nature to want to be with other people.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Squid Game’ is a story about human nature that most people can already relate to, yet everything is communicated through easy-to-follow childhood games.
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don’t really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it’s horrifying. But that’s just human nature.
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work – what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn’t change human nature.
It’s human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don’t begrudge that whatsoever.
Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
When I found the ‘Human Nature’ music video as a teenager – I’ve been a drag queen since 15 – I just loved that music video so much because it’s such a celebration of her femininity and her sexuality. I thought it was so powerful.
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
