Quotes about Human nature
It's been said that when one of Wooden's players asked, "Coach, what happens if I point to the player who gave me the assist and he isn't watching?" Coach Wooden replied, "He will always be watching." People desire validation and encouragement. It's human nature.
- John Maxwell
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
- Alexander Hamilton
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
- Teresa of Avila
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
- Wendell Berry
He sins because he is a sinner. Fundamentally, on the inside, man is a sinner, and that accounts for his actions. I am sure that many people in that day said of the Assyrians,
- J. Vernon McGee
The heart of man is the same in every age. The spiritual medicine which it requires is always the same.
- JC Ryle
No, Engelena. Don't blame yourself. Adam and Eve had a perfect parent, yet they rebelled.
- Lynn Austin
This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.
- John Eldredge
How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?
- Joni Eareckson Tada
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
No man who knows aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.
- John Milton
But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.' We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.
- John Owen