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Human Nature Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”

Abraham Lincoln

Perseverance, Human Nature, Change, Adaptability

2. “It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.”

Abraham Lincoln

Humor, Trust, Secrecy, Wit, Human Nature

3. “Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God’s decree and can never be reversed.”

Abraham Lincoln

Persuasion, Kindness, Influence, Human Nature, Faith

4. “Everybody likes a compliment.”

Abraham Lincoln

Compliments, Human Nature, Positivity, Interactions, Happiness

5. “Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.”

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Legacy, Self-interest, Human Nature, Labor

6. “The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.”

Abraham Lincoln

Human Nature, Selfishness, Reflection, Morality, Philosophy

7. “Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.”

Abraham Lincoln

Morality, Ethics, Interest, Values, Human Nature

8. “Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.”

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom, Human nature, Spirituality, Purpose, Resistance

9. “As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it’s not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.”

Abraham Lincoln

Conflict, Society, Human nature, Irony, Rights

10. “Human nature will not change.”

Abraham Lincoln

Human nature, Consistency, Philosophy, Understanding, Reality

11. “It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”

Albert Einstein

Human Nature, Evil, Science, Spirit, Humanity

12. “Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”

William Shakespeare

Old Age, Lying, Vice, Human Nature, Age

13. “Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Dignity, Human Nature, Resilience, Strength, Life

14. “Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Human Nature, Love, Optimism, Faith, Compassion

15. “We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Forbearance, Abuse, Human Nature, Patience, Conflict Resolution

16. “It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance, and mystery than by facts.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity, Gossip, Human Nature, Perception, Media

17. “I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Human Nature, Morality, Perspective, Wisdom, Empathy

18. “Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Emotion, Insight, Human Nature, Fiction, Motivational

19. “Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”

J.K. Rowling

Human Nature, Choices, Self-Sabotage, Reflection, Behavior

20. “Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Justice, Hypocrisy, Society, Human Nature, Ethics

21. “Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Wealth, Envy, Human Nature, Social Critique, Reflection

22. “Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Envy, Arrogance, Ethics, Morality, Human Nature

23. “The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Envy, Ethics, Morality, Human Nature, Psychology

24. “Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.”

Winston Churchill

Trust, Irony, Human Nature, Vice, Character

25. “Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.”

Winston Churchill

Danger, Desperation, Warning, Conflict, Human Nature

26. “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

Winston Churchill

Truth, Realization, Ignorance, Awareness, Human Nature

27. “It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.”

Winston Churchill

Human Nature, Life, Mystery, Future, Acceptance