Quotes About Basic Human Nature

#1. There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

Peter F. Hamilton

#2. This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.

Amish Tripathi

#3. I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

Quincy Jones

#4. We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for survival.

Sarah Castille

#5. If you want to ask how evil begins, just look to basic human nature. What's good gets bent, and bad is the inevitable result.

Anonymous

#6. Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.

Rhonda Britten

#7. It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.

Ruth Bernhard

#8. Understanding of each other is the beginning of peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Being rich is an untalented artist's consolation prize.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.

Steve Jobs

#11. That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

Jose Saramago

#12. I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.

Martha Washington

#13. There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#14. It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.

Vikas Swarup

#15. If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

#16. Happiness. I believed few people ever achieved it.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#17. From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.

Edward T. Hall

#18. All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context and a particular framework of supernatural dogma.
-Andreas Corelli

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#19. You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Russell Simmons

#20. The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

John Bowlby

#21. Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

Ann Leckie

#22. If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

Dalai Lama

#23. What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

Michel De Montaigne

#24. Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

Charlie Munger

#25. Truthfully we were alone only in the ways Westerners speak of being alone in Africa, as if the few hundred locals by whom they are almost always surrounded are part of the landscape, instead of part of humanity.

Alexandra Fuller

#26. If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

Thomas Sowell

#27. The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

Michael Caine

#28. When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

Andrew O'Hagan

#29. Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example

Carroll Bryant

#30. It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

Jill McCorkle

#31. Fear, anxiety, stress and panic, all these are basic evolutionary expression of the human brain. They are part of the normal human condition.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

Ezra Miller

#33. 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