Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
Human Nature Quotes
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
A simple experiment will distinguish two types of human nature. Gather a throng of people and pour them into a ferryboat. By the time the boat swings into the river you will find that a certain proportion have taken the trouble to climb upstairs in order to be out on deck and see what is […]
All men by nature desire to know.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Ya don’t hafta know how to read or write, When you’re out with a feller in the pale moonlight. Ya don’t hafta look in a book to find, What he thinks of the moon and what is on his mind. That comes natur’lly.
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly… Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature – what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action – if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.
