Human Nature Quotes - Page 24

• God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

  Henry George

  Enough, Swine, Showers

  Henry George, Kenneth C. Wenzer (1997). “An Anthology of Henry George's Thought”, p.2, University Rochester Press

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• My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.

  Anwar Sadat

  Cells, Progress, Fabric

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

  Rollo May

  Essence, Spinning, Facts

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.

  Robert Zubrin

  Mistake, Moon, Race

  Robert Zubrin (1999). “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization”, Tarcher

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• The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

  Xunzi

  Men, Evil, Nature Of Man

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• But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

  Lucy Hale

  Lying, White, Here And There

  "An In-Depth Conversation With the Cast of ‘Pretty Little Liars’". Interview with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, bullettmedia.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Thinking, Should Have, Secret

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• I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

  Eric Stoltz

  Fashion, Dark, Thinking

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• It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

  Mireille Enos

  Focus, Secret, Want

  "Q&A – Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

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• The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

  Carl Sagan

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Business, Fire, Conversation

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• A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

  William Delbert Gann

  Business, Successful, Opposites

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• The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Yoga, Self

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• I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Thinking, Comforting, Projects

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• ...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Knowing, Environmental, Reason

  Saint John Chrysostom (1986). “Homilies on Genesis”, p.100, CUA Press

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• I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

  Xanana Gusmao

  Believe, People, Occupation

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• The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

  Criss Jami

  Atheist, Father, Teenager

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.78, Criss Jami

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• The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Communism, Figures, Humans

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• If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

  Charlton Laird

  Degrees, Study, Language

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• It's human nature to want to be with other people.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  People, Want, Humans

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• I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.

  Lily King

  Three, My Family, Back And Forth

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• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Sheep, People

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

  William John Locke

  Anxious Thoughts, Advertisements, Humans

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.59, tredition

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• Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Humanity, Quality, Humans

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.

  John Travolta

  Sex, Too Much, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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