Our Human Nature Quotes
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We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.
— Malala Yousafzai
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
— Billy Graham
We've all got our own brand of crazy.
— Meg Mitchell Moore
Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
— Gustave Flaubert
It is part of our human nature to question what we know and what we don't know.
— Brian Michael Good
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
— Peter Senge
The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.
— George W. Bush
It's the nature of being human that, in our own blindness, we lash out and blind others.
— Kimberly Kinrade
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
— Michel De Montaigne
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
— George Eliot
Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
— Alain Finkielkraut
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
— Mark Nepo
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
— Richard Dawkins
She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.
— Cheryl Strayed
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
— Samuel Richardson
We cry for the hand of God to bring us salvation, but then we seize the voice of God and use it to profess our destructive nature.
— J.M. Campos
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
— Brian Weiss
Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
— L.R. Knost
The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.
— John Fowles
Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.
— Russell Banks
Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own.
— J.B. MacKinnon
In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.
— Billy Graham
We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.
— George R R Martin
We are human and our nature is to air.
— Amanda Palmer
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
— George Washington
People are not hooked on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook but on each other. Tools and services come and go; what is constant is our human urge to share.
— Alfred Hermida
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
— Richard Engel
Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.
— Douglas Coupland
It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.
— Robin Hobb
Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them
— Morena Baloyi
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
— Camille Paglia
Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.
Diary of a Country Priest — Georges Bernanos
Diary of a Country Priest — Georges Bernanos
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
— Wallace Stegner
[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.
— Claire McCaskill
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again - in a new way.
— Gloria Steinem
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
— Carl Sagan
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
— David McCullough
What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we've made when it comes to our medical treatment?
— Suzanne Somers
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
— Salman Rushdie
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
— David Foster Wallace
It's human nature to view life from our own reality.
This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane. — Jaime Buckley
This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane. — Jaime Buckley
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
— Isaac Watts
We all make mistakes. It is in our human nature. It just happens, it's nature's way to keep life interesting.
— Ariana Godoy
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
— Phillips Brooks
Human nature is complex, ... all our genes are different, but neither damaged nor pure.
— Veronica Roth
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
— Henry David Thoreau
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
— Scott Westerfeld
If we lose our human nature, we lose much, but if we lose our bestial nature, we lose everything.
— Liu Cixin
It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.
— Joyce Meyer
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.
— Kenneth R. Miller
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
— Henry David Thoreau
Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.
— Ray Bourhis
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
— Aldous Huxley
Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny.
— Myles Munroe
It amazes me how as beings in an unpredictable world, how we glorify our brothers falling.
— Xela Ffonrims
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
— Julia Ward Howe
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
— C.S. Lewis
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.
— Gyorgy Kepes
Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.
— Mary Virginia Provines
One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.
— Shawn Achor
Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change
— Daniel Egger
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
What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
— S.J. Watson
Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.
— Joel Garreau
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
— George Eliot
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.
— Gary Chapman
the paradox of human ignorance is the most intriguing paradox of nature
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
— Harold S. Kushner
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.
— Srinivas Shenoy
Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.
— Sri Chinmoy
Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.
— David Duchovny
Philanderers and swingers can see nothing beyond the needs of their genitals. Sexual craving is a part of our biology, but it is not who we are.
— Abhijit Naskar
Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.
— Alex Gaskarth
And, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions
— Thomas More
A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
— Orson Scott Card
I think its just human nature to wish that the people who are gone from our lives are going to come back.
— Kristin Harmel