2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

Candide was an optimist, but you're a pessoptimist.""That fact," I repsonded, "Is a virtue that, above all others, distinguishes my people.""But you," he criticized again, "seem to be imitating Candide.""Don't blame me for that. Blame our way of life that hasn't changed since Voltaire's day, except that El Dorado has now come to exist on this planet.

But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to be left alone to eat and breed and eat and breed, just like us.

Why did they kill it? Man can't stand to let something beautiful and pure, a thing on wings, pass over him. He hates everything that soars, and everything that sings. It seemed to me this swan is the very image of my dream, and my dream is dead.

Generally, people like people who are like themselves.

Change of a people starts with an individual.

All I'm saying is, persons have to change. I am a person. I will change

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Being endowed with Imagination Human beings can see much beyond their eyes.

In the end we are all just clouds wandering around without fighting off the winds.