Human Nature Quotes

"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good." "People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights" "Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises" "The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important" "To feel much for others and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature, and can alone give us that tranquility which is the natural and proper object of human desire" "Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him" "There's no lack of opportunity to take a guilt trip, we all do it some time or other" "The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them" "The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm" "The weak in courage is strong in cunning " "What is a man without desires, without Free Will " "It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey." "The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire" "I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? " "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value" "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one" "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness the theologian all the stupidity" "A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants" "Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become" "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else"