2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Conservation is a fight against the less scrupulous side of ourselves.

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

Be A Colorful Person Not A Chameleon.

you can't fight with who you are

But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if you’ve worked for it, or if you know you can lose it. How are you going to make the inhabitants of your little heaven feel fulfilled if everything comes to them easily?

They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life who chose instead their life: spite and bitterness and age-fogged glasses of watery whiskey in dark, cobwebbed country bars, shit-smeared toilets, blood-streaked piss, and early death. He could have helped it but didn't. They couldn't help it and loved him for being worse than them. He was the king of the wasters.