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The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. — Jules Renard

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell

But each one is a gamble of Nature, a hopeful attempt at forming a human being. — Hermann Hesse

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously ... — Arthur Conan Doyle

Human nature is weak. — Anthony Fauci

The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation. — Bella Forrest

The girl in your class who suggests that this year the Drama Club put on The Bald Soprano will be a thorn in people's sides all of her life. — Fran Lebowitz

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world. — James Gleick

As Tozer expressed it, Human nature, as we know it, is in a formative state. It is being changed into the image of the thing it loves. — Anonymous

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic. — Dalai Lama

It's only human nature for dogs to chase motrobikes — Peter Tinniswood

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C.S. Lewis

Life, despite the accompanying loneliness that afflicts human without umbilical attachments, was to be cherished for the sheer joy of nature. — Aporva Kala

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst. — Billy Graham

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty. — Harold Laski

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. — Thomas Jefferson

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature. — Frans De Waal

There is no other enemy of a human being except his own nature. — Deep Trivedi

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well. — Jo Coudert

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. — Voltaire

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair. — Nenia Campbell

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. — Marie Corelli

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone. — Dan Pearce

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense. — Philip K. Dick

Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust. — Norman Lock

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully. — Wynn Bullock

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. — Graham Greene

The less human you feel, the more human you become. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Maybe it was simply human nature to only love a thing after losing it. Maybe they should all lose more things so they can appreciate what they had. — Tiffany Reisz

A hybrid nature of organization strikes the right balance between "virtual world" and the human connections. — Pearl Zhu

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. — Arthur Miller

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar. — B.R. Ambedkar

My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. — Marilyn Monroe

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. — Suzy Kassem

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. — Carrot Top

Yet such is the perversity of human nature that I hungered for what I could never have and dreamed of the impossible. — Wilbur Smith

Not by human dwellings
not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them. — Solomon Northup

Law is born from despair of human nature. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage. — John Le Carre

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. — David Eagleman

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. — Simone De Beauvoir

It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know that nothing's impossible. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Laws have never been able to change human nature, and only God can change hearts. — Siri Mitchell

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. — Arundhati Roy

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it. — T.A. Uner

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. — William Winwood Reade

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility. — Amitav Ghosh

Ambiguity begets participation. — Daniel J. Levitin

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying. — Joseph Heller

I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature. — James Fenimore Cooper

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. — William Blackstone

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. — Xun Zi

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln

Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second. — Phil Kerby

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. — J.K. Rowling

Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before. — W. H. Auden

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

But what is art other than revealing human nature? — Marina Abramovic

It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak woman, too. — Cathy Burnham Martin

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. — A.B. Simpson

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis

i do not know how to live tepidly.
i was never built to fit in.
i live by my soul
and my soul is insane. — AVA.

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you. — Barrows Dunham

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity — William Arthur Ward

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe. — Zeno Of Citium

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport. — David Millar

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. — Mary Shelley

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Human nature is so important than your life — Azhar Sabri

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else. — Abhijit Naskar

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. — Juliette Lewis

Men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it. — M.J. Rose

It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it's only to-day that one of them broke the news to us. — W. Somerset Maugham

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. — Clarence Day Jr.

There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't. — Rachael Bermingham

Imagine about anything instead of assume about it. — Savan Solanki

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. — Ilana Mercer

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect? — Thomas Sowell

Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change — Daniel Egger

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives. — David O. McKay

I believe in order to understand — Saint Augustine

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. — Tacitus

People do judge books by their covers; it's human nature. They react to the way you look before they hear a single word that comes out of your mouth. — Jeff Garvin

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. — Henry Beston

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other. — William Golding

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. — Sue Grafton

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year. — Edgar Rice Burroughs