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Human Nature Quotes by Famous Authors
Explore the best timeless quotes on Human Nature, including thoughts on Human Nature. Discover the best Human Nature quotes by renowned authors.
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“Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappiness of another.”
Ivan Turgenev
Suffering
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Human Nature
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Power
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Balance
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Injustice
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“I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But I do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.”
Ivan Turgenev
Goodness
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Complexity
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Morality
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Human Nature
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Inner Conflict
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“Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?”
Ivan Turgenev
Human Nature
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Egoism
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Moral Struggle
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Self-Awareness
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Weakness
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“Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it’s not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.”
Ivan Turgenev
Sentimentality
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Disillusionment
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Regret
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Emotional Contrast
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Human Nature
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“Don’t introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can’t hate a man whom I know.”
Charles Lamb
Hate
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Familiarity
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Perception
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Human Nature
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Irony
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“Man is a gaming animal.”
Charles Lamb
Human Nature
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Play
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Competition
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Behavior
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Psychology
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“All people have their blind side-their superstitions.”
Charles Lamb
Superstition
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Human Nature
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Perception
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Wisdom
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Beliefs
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“The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.”
Charles Lamb
Cowardice
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Human Nature
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Fear
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Weakness
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Reflection
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“He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.”
Charles Lamb
Folly
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Wisdom
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Balance
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Human Nature
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Life
10.
“Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.”
Steven Wright
Logic
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Curiosity
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Human Nature
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Psychology
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Irony
11.
“I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.”
Jimmy Carter
Human Nature
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Kindness
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Wisdom
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Life
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Self-Discovery
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“Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.”
Democritus
Human Nature
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Wisdom
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Foolishness
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Reality
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Imperfection
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“The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.”
Plutarch
Slander
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Envy
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Reputation
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Morality
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Human Nature
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“Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.”
Plutarch
Envy
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Soul
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Emotions
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Human Nature
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Vice
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“Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.”
Scott Adams
Science
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Energy
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Humor
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Innovation
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Human Nature
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“It is a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change or accidentally killing innocent bystanders in the process.”
Scott Adams
Humor
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Human Nature
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Intelligence
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Life
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Perception
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“If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.”
Scott Adams
Politics
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Rationality
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Psychology
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Decision-Making
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Human Nature
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“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”
Scott Adams
Forgiveness
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Revenge
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Irony
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Human Nature
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Perspective
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“Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.”
Scott Adams
Games
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Technology
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Human Nature
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Computers
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Fun
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“The root of war is fear.”
Thomas Merton
War
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Fear
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Human Nature
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Conflict
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Root Of War
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“But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.”
Thomas Merton
Pride
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Ego
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Self-Worth
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Humility
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Human Nature
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“One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.”
Thomas Merton
Truth
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Society
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Fear
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Human Nature
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Awareness
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“As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no one expects us to be “as gods.” We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us.”
Thomas Merton
Humility
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Self-Realization
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Compassion
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Human Nature
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Interdependence
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“Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his “right mind.””
Thomas Merton
Inner Peace
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Human Nature
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Spiritual Awakening
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Divine Wisdom
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Social Harmony
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“It is when we insist most firmly on everyone else being “reasonable” that we become ourselves, unreasonable.”
Thomas Merton
Reason
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Perspective
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Human Nature
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Paradox
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Behavior
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“We never see the one truth that would help us begin to solve our ethical and political problems: that we are all more or less wrong, that we are all at fault, all limited and obstructed by our mixed motives, our self-deception, our greed, our self-righteousness and our tendency to aggression and hypocrisy.”
Thomas Merton
Truth
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Ethics
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Self-Reflection
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Human Nature
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Morality
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“Man is endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but until now he has not created, but demolished.”
Anton Chekhov
Creativity
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Responsibility
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Destruction
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Innovation
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Human Nature
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“The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.”
Anton Chekhov
Unhappiness
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Isolation
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Cruelty
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Injustice
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Human Nature
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“Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere, everything would go to the devil.”
Anton Chekhov
Insincerity
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Truth
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Society
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Human Nature
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Honesty
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“I know exactly the potential of the people around here. They have the potential to lie. They have the potential to deceive. They have the potential to inveigle. They’ll change nothing. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I lie awake thinking, my God! We have so much. We have these huge forests. We have boundless open fields. We can see the deepest, furthest horizons. Look around you. Look. We should be giants. We really, really aren’t.”
Anton Chekhov
Potential
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Society
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Disappointment
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Human Nature
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Reality
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