Human Quotes

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

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

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

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

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.