2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

كل إنسان يتمنى أن يكون مخادعا بشرط ألا يعرف أحد ذلك

Nature endowed human beings with two teleological components that define our essential humanity: consciousness and memory. Consciousness enables people to make decisions, and memory allows us to learn and share our accumulated knowledge. Cognitive endowments of consciousness and knowledge allow people to ascribe a meaning to existence, by establishing a direction and purpose to their life.

Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that's closer to human reality.

What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they've been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each flaw they found exactly because of this familiarity and acquaintance with their very own symptoms. How else did they recognize them in you?

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father

The mark of humanity is how it treats the world and those who share it with us...

Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circumstance could change and you may need it.

Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "spread the word," mankind was engaged in all forms of cruel and despicable behavior. To attribute war, killing, and violence to film, TV, and role-play games is to fly in the face of thousands of years of recorded history.