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It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Quotes by Zoe Lister-Jones

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Quotes by Xun Kuang

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Quotes by Xun Kuang

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Quotes by Xun Kuang

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

Quotes by William Bartram

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

Quotes by Wilhelm Dilthey

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Quotes by Walter Bagehot

The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

Quotes by Trey Gowdy

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

We can't legislate human nature.

Quotes by Taya Kyle

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Quotes by Taylor Caldwell

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Quotes by Tacitus

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Quotes by Svetlana Alliluyeva

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Quotes by Steven Pinker

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Quotes by Stacy Keach

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Quotes by Samuel Richardson

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

Quotes by Ron Stallworth

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

Quotes by Rodney Frelinghuysen

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Quotes by Robinson Jeffers

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Quotes by Robert Agostinelli

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

Quotes by Richard Burr

I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.

Quotes by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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!

Quotes by Paul Taylor

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Quotes by Orson Welles

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.

Quotes by Nathaniel Branden

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

Quotes by N. K. Jemisin

Envy is human nature.

Quotes by Monica Bellucci

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.

Quotes by Miguel Nicolelis

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

Quotes by Michelle Pfeiffer

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Quotes by Michael Pollan

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Quotes by Matthew Simpson

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Quotes by Mason Cooley

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Quotes by Martin Chemnitz

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

Quotes by Mark Frost

It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter. Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. But sooner or later, all the storage units are full, and the room once again overflows with things.

Quotes by Marie Kondo

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Quotes by Marianne Moore

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Quotes by Margot Asquith

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Quotes by Margaret Mead

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

Quotes by Lucy Hale

All my work is always that exploration of human nature.

Quotes by Kelly Masterson

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Quotes by Karl Kraus

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.

Quotes by Joseph Butler

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

Quotes by Joseph Addison

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

John Keats

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

Quotes by John Burroughs

I'm an advocate of human nature.

Quotes by Jaron Lanier

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Quotes by Jane Smiley

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Quotes by Jane Smiley

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Quotes by Jami Gertz

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

Quotes by James Madison

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

Quotes by J. P. Donleavy

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Quotes by Howard Lindsay

I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.

Quotes by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

Quotes by Hjalmar Branting

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Quotes by Henry Cantwell Wallace

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Quotes by Harriet Martineau

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

Quotes by Goldwin Smith

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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.

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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.

Quotes by Gale Anne Hurd

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Quotes by Frank B. Kellogg

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Quotes by Evgeny Morozov

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'

Quotes by Elvis Mitchell

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

Quotes by Elizabeth Banks

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.

Quotes by Elie Metchnikoff

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

Quotes by Elie Metchnikoff

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Quotes by Edward Hall

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Quotes by Edith Hamilton

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

Quotes by Edgar Ramirez

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

Quotes by Edgar Ramirez

A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.

Quotes by Douglas Brunt

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Quotes by Diablo Cody

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

Quotes by Denis Diderot

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

Quotes by Deb Caletti

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

Quotes by David McCullough

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Quotes by David Hume

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Quotes by David Hackworth

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Quotes by David Blunkett

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

Quotes by Damon Galgut

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Dalai Lama

It's our human nature to explore. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species walked out of Africa, traveling far and wide across the entire planet, from the Arctic to the tip of Tierra Del Fuego, making us the most geographically diversified species on Earth.

Quotes by Conrad Anker

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Quotes by Clancy Brown

It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn't play a part. Of course it does - that's human nature.

Quotes by Christoph Waltz

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

Quotes by Chris Hondros

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Quotes by Charles Kingsley

Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.

Quotes by Charles A. Beard

You learn a lot about human nature in a bar.

Quotes by Bruce Arians

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

Quotes by Bozoma Saint John

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Quotes by Bill Gross

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Quotes by Benjamin Haydon

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Quotes by Ben Whishaw

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Quotes by Armistead Maupin

Human nature is weak.

Quotes by Anthony Fauci

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