Human Nature Quotes

"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had." "It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet." "We are all born mad. Some remain so." "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy" "The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time" "Familiarity breeds contempt" "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion" "In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity" "I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time" "Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity" "You can't change people, only they can change themselves" "As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change—not when you want them to change" "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" "Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being." "The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular." "Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." "Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms." "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex" "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history" "When it comes to shaping our decisions and our actions, feeling counts every bit as much—and often more—than thought."