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Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.
If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.
I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.
Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.
Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.