Top 100 Human In Nature Quotes
#1. To be an oppressor is dehumanizing and anti-human in nature, as it is to be a victim.
Bell Hooks
#2. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.
James Weldon Johnson
#3. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.
Dalai Lama XIV
#4. Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into the world in a state of total d. and alienation from God, and can, of themselves do nothing but sin. J.H. Blunt.
Arundhati Roy
#5. We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identical
structures.
Don DeLillo
#6. Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.
A.C. Grayling
#7. In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.
Abhijit Naskar
#8. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
Abhijit Naskar
#9. Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers
#10. In those hours he is awake and prowling through the building, he sometimes feels he is a demon who has disguised himself as a human, and only at night is it safe to shed the costume he must wear by daylight, and indulge his true nature.
Hanya Yanagihara
#11. We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.
Gloria Steinem
#12. In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#13. It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.
Amor Towles
#14. Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
#15. It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.
Josh McDermitt
#16. Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.
Michel Faber
#17. Men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.
M.J. Rose
#18. Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.
Jonas Eriksson
#19. Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare
Tony Juniper
#20. Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it's a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
"The Nature of Art" December 19, 1954
Frank Lloyd Wright
#21. The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#22. The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.
Charles Colson
#23. The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.
Laurens Van Der Post
#24. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
John Le Carre
#25. The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.
John Woo
#26. It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.
Lauren Willig
#27. The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
George Horace Lorimer
#28. Even in the latter case nature exhibits a kind of intelligence, and there is no reason to rule out the possibility that machines will do so too. If nature in the form of the human species could bring forth intelligent machines, the process of evolution would continue among the machines.
John N. Gray
#29. I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.
Giorgio Vasari
#30. The hard part of humanity is history. All that's been done to human beings by other human beings. In the Rocky River Nature Preserve you didn't have to think of such things.
Joyce Carol Oates
#31. Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.
Philip K. Dick
#32. A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
Arthur Helps
#33. We could go so far as to say that it is the human condition to be grotesque, since the human animal is the one that does not fit in, the freak of nature who has no place in the natural order and is capable of re-combining nature's products into hideous new forms.
Mark Fisher
#34. We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.
Aleksandra Layland
#35. The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.
Joseph E. B. Lumbard
#36. The analytical nature of science gives us the ability to perceive the anatomy of the universe and every molecule in it, but it is the human imagination that gives it life.
Louisa Preston
#37. I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the horrible things we are capable of and also the heroic things. I'm really interested in exploring that side of human nature.
Veena Sud
#38. I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#39. Maybe human beings are programmed ... to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad ...
Scott Westerfeld
#40. They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.
Richard Hofstadter
#41. No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#43. Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before
the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.
David Levithan
#44. I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
Steve Martin
#45. The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a woman has become a mother her duty is greater because nature has entrusted the human species to her. If she fails then she is a coward, unworthy and infamous.
Guy De Maupassant
#47. Now he found out a new thing
namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Mark Twain
#48. It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
Emily Bronte
#49. She is human and bound by the same laws of nature - gravity, in particular - as everyone else. Try as she might, she will never grow wings.
Amy Zhang
#50. One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.
Chris Hondros
#51. I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
George Eliot
#52. Finally, but perhaps above all, human nature is a factor in all this. Scientists have a natural tendency to interpret finds in the way that most flatters their stature.
Bill Bryson
#53. There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.
Radclyffe Hall
#54. His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific slaughter of innocents, when other men, such as Harry Richmond, took advantage of being suddenly unfettered by conventional standards to do whatever the darkest side of human nature desired.
Tom Bensing
#55. to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature
William Wordsworth
#56. In support of the idea that moral progress is compatible with a biological approach to the human mind and an acknowledgment of the dark side of human nature. 3
Steven Pinker
#57. The poacher works in the woods, and the smuggler in the mountains or on the sea.
The towns make men ferocious because it makes them corrupt.
Mountains, sea, and forest make men reckless. They stir the wildness of men's nature,
but do not necessarily destroy what is human
Victor Hugo
#58. They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship.
Abhijit Naskar
#59. Love is ... not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#60. No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect ripeness, and a melon may have the sweetest smell.
Victor Robert Lee
#61. What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#62. God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.
Henry George
#63. They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J.P. Donleavy
#65. To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#66. In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human nature, thereby creating intellectual civilization.
Fernando Pessoa
#67. The ego is the product of imagination. It is how a human being sees himself or herself. It makes humans demand special status in nature and culture. Nature does not care for this self-image of human beings. Culture, which is a man-made creation, attempts to accommodate it.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#68. It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.
John Naisbitt
#69. It amazes me how as beings in an unpredictable world, how we glorify our brothers falling.
Xela Ffonrims
#70. Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Phillips Brooks
#71. The evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that however isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue;
Albert Camus
#72. I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Pat Conroy
#74. We must not hate humanity, or despise humanity, or refuse to help humanity; but we must not trust humanity; in the sense of trusting a trend in human nature which cannot turn back to bad things.
G.K. Chesterton
#75. Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.
James Madison
#76. I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.
John Wesley
#77. Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.
Marti Olsen Laney
#78. People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
Charles Bukowski
#79. I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.
Sarah Dessen
#80. I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they've built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.
Jackie Haze
#81. Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Root
#82. He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.
John Le Carre
#83. Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Alexander Pope
#84. Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#85. You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.
"Aren't we all?" she said ...
Suzanne Palmieri
#86. Freud offended me. He seemed to feel that any suggestion of depth in human nature was an illusion.
Stephen King
#87. There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.
James Bryce
#88. But in the divine nature Persons three,
And in one person the divine and human.
Dante Alighieri
#89. Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
Laozi
#90. The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.
Prince Augustus William Of Prussia
#91. 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
J.G. Ballard
#92. Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
Terry Pratchett
#93. Language is not morally neutral because the human brain is not neutral in its desires. Neither is the dog brain. Neither is the bird brain: crows hate owls. We like some things and dislike others, we approve of some things and disapprove of others. Such is the nature of being an organism.
Margaret Atwood
#94. Flesh is the Bible's word for unperfected human nature. Leaving off the "h" and spelling it in reverse, we have the word self. Flesh is the self-life: it is what we are when we are left to our own devices.
Billy Graham
#95. Nature even on the most local of scales made a mockery of information technology. Even augmented by tech, the human brain was paltry, infinitesimal, in comparison to the universe.
Jonathan Franzen
#96. Employers who understand human nature, get the best there is in men, not by criticism, but by constructive suggestion.
Napoleon Hill
#97. Human nature is against it. People just tend to behave in certain ways because they are people. And
Jo Walton
#98. In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It's bullshit! Human nature is a vast impenetrable forest which no one can know in its entirety. Not even a mother knows her child's deepest secrets.
Jo Nesbo
#99. Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
Billy Graham
#100. We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.
Abraham Maslow
