To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
Human Nature Quotes
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: ‘There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.’
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Even quite common people have souls, and no increases in pay will make up to them for conditions that insult their self-respect or interfere with their freedom… Industry must satisfy human needs if it is not to be paralyzed by repeated revolts on the part of outraged human nature.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
