Human Nature Quotes Quotes

“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.”
― Donna Goddard

“They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“Briefly, the mentality of the plant-men in every age was an expression of the varying tension between the two sides of their nature, between the active assertive, objectively inquisitive, and morally positive animal nature and the passive subjectively contemplative and devoutly acquiescent vegetable state nature.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

“Certain men are liable to be duped, and there is no creature so gullible as the certain man.”
― A.J.West, The Spirit Engineer

“We are able to overcome grievances towards others when we understand that everyone is acting from their own fallible experiences in life. You can only react to anything, from your own storage of life experience that's happened to you thus far. No one can possibly react to anything beyond their own personal storage box of life. That's why it's bound to be fallible, bound to hurt someone else who's coming from somewhere else, and that's also why sometimes something explodes! Nothing is ever personally about us. We all look back ten years later and then see what we could have said or done differently. Better. It's the same way for everybody, and that's how we can let things go.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person first leaves when they are witness to the violence of man.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Maybe that’s what’s immanent to humanity: they strive to know and when they do they still make nothing of it. They come to know and know, but refuse to learn and have to make the same mistakes all over again. Can you really blame them? They are only human, after all, and the world must end twice before they learn a lesson.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, Tomorrow death died out: What if the future were past?

“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Having seen a person for who he is, let go. You do what is right, and good. The bad stays a hood. Accept it. And let go. For things are so.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Humans are the only ones who refuse to co-sleep with their newborns. All other animals do it lovingly and willingly.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“We are emotional creatures; consequently, human nature is to do the wrong thing at the wrong time.”
― Ken Poirot

“Think, Penelope, Fulcanelli blurted out. We don't have time for this. You see, humans are the weakest of all the animals because we so rarely see a clear purpose for ourselves.”
― Sarah C. Patten, The Measure of Gold

“It's so easy for humans to blame God for their misery, Manfri said. Really, it's mostly of their own making.”
― Sarah C. Patten, The Measure of Gold

“I realised the power of the human aura through my dealings with other people. Some would measure me up, and want to compete with or against me. Whereas, some would see a leader in me. A leader whom they could trust. There were no words or actions involved. It's always the aura that shifted the atmosphere in the room.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Everybody has got their own definition of Morality and Religion. We all have modified it as per our convenience.

Little alcohol is fine, sometimes smoking is ok, egg is not completely non-veg, eating little bit is fine when fasting, extra marital affair is ok sometimes, giving little bribe is fine, evading / not paying little amount of tax is fine, sometimes jumping signal is fine and so on..

Yet we all proudly say, we follow our Religion & God and Respect Constitution & Law of the Land!”
― Honeya

“Keep on fighting like an animal without to lose the romantic and logical nature of a human being,...that's Life.”
― Fernando González y Lozano

“Oh, do not blame the gods for man’s war. Do not blame the hearts of man either, for so many are good, and I say so from being witness to their many acts. If you must blame something, blame the eyelids of us men that seem to close right when peace is in front of us and open right when it leaves.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Todo es arriesgado, por defecto o por exceso, si está fuera de cualquier control.
La pasión, la seducción, el atractivo por el riesgo es precisamente la posibilidad de que todo salga bien o mal, y el proveedor necesario de esa sensación y ese resultado es la ausencia de cualquier control.”
― Fernando González y Lozano

“Feelings are like emotions, but emotions are stronger. It is triggered by our brains and eyesight, and anything. There’s love, anger, desire, joy, fear, and…" - Red Genesis by Kailin Gow and Kira G.”
― Kailin Gow, Kira G.

“One of the marvels of human psychology is that the people who are thoroughly pessimistic about humankind want to solve our problems by trusting their solution to a very small number of small minds.”
― Wallace Kaufman

“Man could be utterly beastly at times and his humour abysmally dark, morbid and demoniac.
- Page 105, Blue Jeans”
― Manisha Saxena, Blue Jeans

“Those who value peace of mind, assign everything to the course of Time as the cause, but practical men soon assuage their grief by revenge.”
― Kisari Mohan Ganguli, The Complete Mahabharata

“But then again, can't people just not fucking suck as human beings once in awhile? Is that too much to fucking ask? Is it too much to ask that people like each other for who they are and not what they have? Am I naive about the nature of motherfuckers under Mother Nature's broken wings? Nah, fuck that. People have just as much capacity to be good as they do to be shit. It's a choice. People make choices. So they need to make better fucking choices.”
― Corey Taylor, You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left

“Value of anything may differs but characteristics always remains same..”
― P k

“The warp was the source of so much anguish for us, and yet its absence generated the greatest abhorrence of all. I suppose that is the tragedy of our kind- we are as moths to the candle, bound inextricably to the thing that destroys us.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“But Addie knows too well now, knows that these stories are full of foolish humans doing foolish things, warning tales of gods and monsters and greedy mortals who want too much, and then fail to understand what they’ve lost. Until the price is paid, and it’s too late to claim it back.”
― V.E Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“BIRDS MAKE TRICKY ESCAPES WHEN THINGS GO AFOWL”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“The public face is not always the true nature of a man.”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker

“Let’s be honest: nothing stays pure once humans get involved.”
― Rove Monteux