2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed.

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

ভীতি কখনোই প্রীতির মতো স্থায়ী ফলদায়ক ঔষধ নয়, তবে তাতে সাময়িক উপশম অবশ্যই হয়।

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.