Human Nature Quotes

"There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men " "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." "When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door." "All men profess honesty as long as they can" "He who thinks greatly must err greatly." "Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being… there are legitimate expectations, but one must always make room for the fallibility of human nature." "Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst." "There is no such thing as a grown person who has forgotten their childhood" "To say that a man is merry and jovial, because he has a kindly heart towards others, is a vulgar error." "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old " "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything" "Discipline must come through liberty. Here is a great principle which is difficult for followers of man-made disciplines to understand." "The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child." "The tendency to socialize is primitive and for this reason progress finds a degree of acceptance on all sides and is not met with as much opposition as formerly." "Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay" "There's a dark side to everything" "There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people" "The prettiest people do the ugliest things" "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots" "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to everything else, namely not to follow it but to amend it."