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Human Nature Quotes

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The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
John Bowlby

The inclination to form intense affective attachments to specific people [is] an essential feature of human character.
Authors on Human Nature Quotes: Alexander Hamilton Steven Pinker Ellen Glasgow Aristotle David Hume James Madison Mark Twain Jean-Paul Sartre Plato Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Edward Abbey Marcus Aurelius Thomas B. Macaulay Alfred North Whitehead Benjamin Franklin Henry David Thoreau Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Abraham Maslow William James Xunzi Immanuel Kant Stephen King Noam Chomsky Arundhati Roy Friedrich Nietzsche Michel de Montaigne John Dewey Confucius Pliny the Elder Alan Watts Bertrand Russell Saint John Chrysostom Al Gore
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Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
Elvis Presley

'No matter where we come from, we are all interconnected; hating another person is the same as loathing a part of oneself.'
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
Ai Weiwei

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What you are will show in what you do.
Thomas A. Edison

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If you will it, it is no dream
Theodor Herzl

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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Phyllis Schlafly

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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles

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God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
R. C. Sproul

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Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
Steven Pinker

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Taylor Caldwell

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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.
John Dewey

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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

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The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
Stephen Jay Gould

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Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
John Dewey

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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Robinson Jeffers

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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
Hermann Bondi

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The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.
Donald Woods Winnicott

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As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
Emily Greene Balch

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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Alexander Herzen

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...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.
Nikolas Schreck

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We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.
Celeste Holm

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It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
Frank B. Kellogg

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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
Thucydides

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The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl

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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
Flannery O'Connor

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That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!
Minnie Pearl

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Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
Billy Graham

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We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
Abraham Maslow

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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xunzi

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Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
Jack Nicholson

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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats

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It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
Vince Staples

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Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!
Alexander Hamilton

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The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

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It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.
Sri Chinmoy

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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?
Alexander Hamilton

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I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
Anthony Burgess

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Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
Harry Browne

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even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.
Hadewijch

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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
Cass Sunstein

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True love can alter human lives and change human nature.
Thomas S. Monson

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Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
Marcus Aurelius

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

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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
Alexander Hamilton

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

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False hope is worse than despair.
Jonathan Kozol

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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
Jonathan Swift

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I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.
Mercy Otis Warren

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That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
Alexander Hamilton

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