Human Nature Quotes

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them" "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" "The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world" "The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done." "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts" "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble" "Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people" "Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary" "The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog" "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." "People never change they just become better at hiding who they really are" "Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices." "We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." "People often claim to hunger for truth but seldom like the taste when it's served up" "Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." "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 are always haunted by the idea that we could have worked harder or done better. But that is our human condition." "There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope" "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."