223 Human Nature Quotes for You to Enjoy

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Margaret Mead

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Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere. Maurice Saatchi

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I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. Michael Shermer

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. Samuel Johnson

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Human nature is not of itself vicious. Thomas Paine

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot

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I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.' Quincy Jones

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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. Adam Clarke

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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing. Adam Mansbach

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I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. Al Gore

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I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits. Alan Greenspan

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Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence. Alan Greenspan

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. Alfred North Whitehead

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I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children. Alison Gopnik

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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Anatole France

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I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters. Andrea Barrett

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