Human Nature Philosophers Quotes

#1. I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

Julia Sawalha

#2. I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Christina Baker Kline

#3. Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

Alison Gopnik

#4. Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.

George R R Martin

#5. My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Steven Pinker

#6. I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.

Jon Ronson

#7. I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead.

Tom Berenger

#8. I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

Beth Gibbons

#9. The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

Maimonides

#10. The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

John Updike

#11. It's unnecessarily grandiose to use an Open Sesame on the doors, but I do it anyway because I know everyone will be in the dining hall, and I may as well make an entrance.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Alan Lightman

#13. This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

James Pinckney Miller

#14. You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.

Clive Davis