Quotes about Human nature
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
- Alain de Botton
Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.
- Elton John
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
- Elias Canetti
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
- St. Augustine
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
- Mahatma Gandhi
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
- Albert Einstein
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
- Edmund Burke
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
- GK Chesterton
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
- GK Chesterton