Human Nature Quotes

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits" "There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them." "You can’t suppress the things that make us human—it’s always there." "You know, when you really get down to it, our national sport is gossip" "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." "The lack of money is the root of all evil." "To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem." "One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining that there is some sort of ground rule applied to the universe by which final triumph if you are strong enough, and the ultimate success of virtue if you are good enough, is inevitable." "There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men." "Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people" "I ain't perfect, but anything I did to any woman, it was out of love" "People assume that we’re going to have a perfect understanding of things, but things aren’t that simple." "I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect" "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet." "There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts." "People often claim to hunger for truth but seldom like the taste when it's served up" "There’s good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad" "We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." "We are always haunted by the idea that we could have worked harder or done better. But that is our human condition."