Human Nature Quotes

"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." "To think is easy To act is hard But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking" "Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God" "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." "There is no greater spellbinder of the mind than the chime of silver coins upon a begging plate." "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?" "All cruelty springs from weakness" "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls" "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love" "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted" "We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water."