2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

We were so raw that we could be seduced by civility.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Make peace with human failure, it's inevitable. Everything isn't going to be OK, but you're not responsible for that which is out of your hands. All you can do is make what is in your hands positive.

Where there is humanity, there is doubt.

It's so easy for humans to blame God for their misery, Manfri said. Really, it's mostly of their own making.

He said, "Don't deep dive into a cereal bowl"I say, "Don't use a bread slice as a springboard."..nothing deep. all surface. just how we like it.

You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game? [...] This business is rife with idiots. They play with lives and they play badly, and when people like you die as a result, they shrug and as 'Risks have to be taken in wartime.' You'd really march yourself into a firing squad for that kind of fool?

It’s easy to forget that people from the past weren’t the two-dimensional black-and-white photos or line drawings you might encounter in some dry textbooks. They weren’t just gray-faced guys in top hats. They were living, breathing, joking, burping people, who could be happy or sad, funny or boring, cool or the lamest people you ever met in your life. They had no idea they were living in the past. They all thought they were living in the present.

I believed my love would be reciprocated because it was pure. But it wasn’t. Reaction to every action? It doesn’t work that way with a human heart. Human mind resembles the quantum world. Always uncertain. Beyond any explanation.